On September 23rd, James Sherrett presented to the Saskatchewan Publishers Association and we’d like to offer you a special deal on the Boxcar Marketing Quick-Fix Report. The Boxcar Marketing Quick-Fix Report is a scorecard of what is working and not working on...
On Monday the Georgia Straight posted an article on how Vancouver’s book scene is being reshaped by online communities. The article looks at how the web is changing the publishing industry and readers’ relationship to books. Vancouver, in particular, is...
Friday, October 8 was Vancouver’s 3rd Interesting event. Interesting was founded in London, UK by Russell Davies and now has chapters around the world. Friend and former Vancouverite Brett Macfarlane founded the Vancouver chapter and kicked off the event this...
Just 16% of folks online generate 80% of the messages posted about products and services, according to Forrester Research’s Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler, authors of Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business....
October 1, 2010, was the second BookCamp Vancouver and it was a great success! Thank you to Crissy Campbell, our behind-the-scenes project manager extraordinaire, and the members of the organizing committee: John Maxwell, Sean Cranbury and Cynara Geissler. A big...
The International Digital Media Arts Association Conference 2010 (iDMAa 2010) is happening November 4 - 6 at Emily Carr University. This year’s conference will focus on the subject of The Digital Narrative: Pushing scholarship, creativity and imagination....
The second BookCamp Vancouver is this Friday, October 1. BookCamp is a conference that brings together 250 members from the technology and publishing industries to talk about digital aspects of book publishing and how online media is changing the game. The early days...
This month, the CBC Book Club is exploring the future of reading. Here’s an interesting interview with Benjamin Rivers - an independent game developer, comic artist and web designer - that looks at the interactive and cross-media opportunities that are now...
Chapters Indigo has a really neat eReading app on their Facebook Page that we haven’t seen done yet anywhere else. If you click on the eReading tab on their Facebook Page, this is what you see: Why We Like The eReading App It encourages avid readers to explore...
Last week Google announced the launch of its new search function, Google Instant. It is currently only available in the US but will be added to international searches within the next few weeks. Google Instant’s features include predictive text and streaming...