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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Register for BookCamp Vancouver

Registration for BookCamp Vancouver 2009 Unconference: Exploring New Ideas in Books, Publishing and the Future of Reading is now open.

The free unconference will be taking place on Friday October 16th at Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver.

Sign up now. Seats are going fast!

BookCamp Vancouver is a user-generated unconference that brings print publishers, educators, community builders and the tech community together - for free! BookCamp Vancouver is an opportunity to explore the present and future of books and book-like technologies. It’s open to anyone interested in the publishing industry and the potential dynamics of the reader/creator/publisher relationship.

Join us for a day of sharing new ideas, radical notions and engaging conversation! We’ll consider the future of the Book as an object; examine its ongoing role as a delivery mechanism for stories, information and entertainment; and examine how publishers can leverage themselves for success in the digital age.

We’re encouraging BookCampers to suggest topics of discussion for the day and to suggest sessions that they would like to lead.

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Internet Marketing Conference 2008 Panel on Writing for the Web

Watch the IMC session on Writing for the Web
Featuring Monique Trottier of Boxcar Marketing and
Crawford Kilian, author of “Writing for the Web 3.0”; Elizabeth Southall, Powerhouse Copy; Jim DeLaHunt, Jim DeLaHunt & Associates; and Tom McNamara, McNamara Communications.

A recap of the session is available on TechVibes (text version).

About the Video
riiPlay.tv, a Vancouver-based video and web production company, filmed the Internet Marketing Conference held in Vancouver last year, and they have kindly sent me the video embed code for my session on Writing for the Web.

Have you ever missed an event and wished you could attend?
Have you ever held an event and wished that someone was filming it?
Have you ever attended an event and wished that you could send your co-workers links to watch the “best of” clips?

riiPlay.tv is answering this by providing the filming of live events, the production of watchable video segments, and the hosting and delivery of those videos online through free or pay-per-view means.

Website: http://www.riiplay.tv
Twitter: http://twitter.com/riiplaytv
Blog: http://www.fundfindr.tv and http://www.fundfindr.com

About IMC
Corey Rollins and I live blogged the Vancouver Internet Marketing Conference (September 11 and 12, 2008) for TechVibes. Links to our posts by subject category are here ...

Many of the presentations at the Internet Marketing Conference highlighted tactics for Search Marketing. A round-up of presenters and helpful docs are here ...

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Monique Trottier & James Sherrett Featured in Adpages 2009

Adpages, the Business in Vancouver magazine on advertising, marketing and communications, features “The Online Marketing Game: How the Internet Changed Advertising” by Sara Newham.

The article is a 2-page spread featuring a glossy photo us (Monique Trottier of Boxcar Marketing and James Sherrett of AdHack), plus smart-sounding quotes and commentary on how Barack Obama used social media marketing and how advertising creative can be sourced through social networks.

Smart and pretty on the same day. Thank you Sara Newham for making us sound intelligent and thank you Dominic Schaefer for catching our better sides.

Update: The 2009 edition of AdPages is now available on the Business in Vancouver website.

Boxcar Marketing & AdHack in ADPAGES 2009

Boxcar Marketing & AdHack in ADPAGES 2009

Boxcar Marketing & AdHack in ADPAGES 2009

 

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Friday, January 02, 2009

Boxcar Marketing Business Cards

Friend, colleague and awesome graphic designer Jason Landry created the Boxcar Marketing logo and business cards that we’ve been lovingly passing around for the past couple of months.

The font for the word Marketing is Gotham by Hoefler & Frere-Jones. And the font for the word Boxcar is a custom creation based, although there are similar fonts available. The inspiration for the design was railway tracks and the X railway crossing symbol.

Although you can’t see it clearly in this photo, the cards are a rich burgundy with a red that totally pops.

Thank you Jason!

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Boxcar Marketing on Dancing Matt in the Vancouver Sun

We did a fun interview with Nicole Tomlinson for a story about Dancing Matt‘s internet video phenomena for the Vancouver Sun. Nicole did a really nice job of summarizing our chats and emails and the Dancing Matt phenomena.

And just in case you’re not one of the 15-million+ people who’ve watched one of Matt’s dancing videos, please let the one below load and enjoy 4 minutes of delight.

 

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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Pull a Face for PutPlace: Photo Contest

Data Loss Disaster: A short story in photosMy bookkeeper pointed out the other day that the backup on her computer hasn’t been working for the past couple of months. Eek gads! What that means is that all the information she is entering for my bookkeeping purposes could disappear. By “her” computer, she means my computer, which I’ve set up for her to use.

Documents, photos, music, videos ... there’s all sort of valuable stuff on that computer because it used to be my home computer.

So here is my data loss disaster story in a series of photos.

It starts like this:

Oh, that was weird!

Oh, that was really bad.

Oh, I don’t know how to fix this.

Oh, I really don’t know how to fix this.

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Oh, James?

Oh, geez.

Oh. Ooooooooh.

Oh. No.

Have your own story? A single photo will do.

One of my clients is PutPlace. And they are all about preventing data loss disasters like this one.

* PutPlace offers real-time backup.
* PutPlace protects and organizes your photos, documents, emails, music and home movies.
* PutPlace enables you to publish a file on multiple sites and find it later.

PutPlace is more than file backup. It’s a lifesaver and they are running a photo contest.

All you have to do is submit a photo of your shock or horror with a caption about your data loss fears. The prize is an annual subscription to PutPlace for 100 GB of data + $200 USD Amazon gift certificate.

As Darren says, “Go forth and panic for the camera.”

A data lost photo contestSubmit your photo: Putplace.com/pullaface

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Vancouver Startups Career Fair

Looking for a job with a growing high-tech company in Vancouver? Want to learn first-hand what it’s like to work at a tech startup?

The good folks at Techvibes have joined up with more good folks at Launch Party Vancouver to host the Vancouver startups career fair Wednesday, May 21st at 3:00pm at Republic on 958 Granville Street.

Who should attend? From web designers to systems engineers and all stops in between. If you’re a student, a recent graduate, or just part of the workforce and curious about what its like to work for a Start-Up — this FREE event is for you.

Sign up on Facebook for the startups career fair.

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