Archive for the ‘canucks’ Category
December 7th, 2009 by
Miss604
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Tomorrow CHUM Radio stations, which include The Beat 94.5, QMFM, and Team Radio will be taking part in the Canuck Place Day of Giving Radiothon. From 6:00am until 10:00pm, tune in to hear many compelling stories from Canuck Place families and volunteers.
Through all stages of a child’s illness, an individual program is designed to meet [...]
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Tags: events, non-profit
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October 19th, 2009 by
Miss604
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Canadian Forces Appreciation Night at GM Place is November 1st when the Canucks take on the Colorado Avalanche.
Photo © Department of National Defence
To make this event a success, season ticket holders are being asked to donate their tickets for this particular game so that someone from our nation’s armed forces can attend.
There are three [...]
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September 23rd, 2009 by
Miss604
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This is my fourth annual Raise-a-Reader day and it’s something I look forward to each year. The streets of downtown become populated with members of the Canucks organization (past and present) and in exchange for a donation to the Raise-a-Reader program, you get a copy of the Vancouver Sun and the opportunity to meet said [...]
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September 15th, 2009 by
Miss604
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The Vancouver Canucks to host an official Tweetup on Thursday, all are welcome to come out to watch the game and cheer on the team.
During the NHL season the term “Canucks” usually becomes one of the top ten trending topics on Twitter while other teams across the league have yet to achieve this social media [...]
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May 1st, 2009 by
Miss604
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I love random stats and tidbits of information which is why I’m currently addicted to Google’s Insights for Search feature.
Basically you can pop in a search term and see trends such as which cities or countries search what term the most, where people are located, what are some top searched words, and various other [...]
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Posted in canucks, geeky, hockey, internet
April 28th, 2009 by
Miss604
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After the resounding success of the first NHLTweetup in Vancouver, I’ve joined forces with the king of Canucks tweets, Richard Loat, and plotted the Round Two tweetup.
What’s a NHLTweetup?
An in-person meetup (eat, drink, chat) for people who are on Twitter and like to cheer on the #Canucks. You can read my post from the last [...]
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April 23rd, 2009 by
Miss604
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On the cover of the 24 Hours this morning there are a few Canucks fans sporting the latest trend in female fan fashion: what appears to be a jersey, no pants (maybe booty shorts or hidden skirt) and stiletto heels.
Photo by: KlicksPhoto @ at Mainland Athletics – via 24 Hours Vancouver
Not to pick [...]
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Posted in canucks, link fest, vancouver
April 21st, 2009 by
Miss604
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AP Photo/Jeff Roberson via Nucks Misconduct
Our home team is undefeated thus far in the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs and while they fought hard against a strong young St Louis team, Canucks fans were calling the sweep days ago (and I was hoping no one was going to jinx it).
It’s been an up and down [...]
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April 16th, 2009 by
Miss604
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When the Director of Corporate Communications for the NHL starts sending updates about an NHL Tweetup you know it’s legit. But regardless of its official status, a tweetup is basically a get together for those who use Twitter. In many cases it’s because they share a passion for a similar topic and tonight, it was [...]
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April 15th, 2009 by
Miss604
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Local ethnic radio station, Red FM 93.1 will be broadcasting play-by-play of the Canucks playoff home games in Punjabi to their radio and internet audiences.
“TEAM 1040 is proud to help build and support this unique radio partnership with ReD FM,” said Robert Gray, Program Manager, TEAM 1040. “For the Punjabi community to now be [...]
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March 15th, 2009 by
Miss604
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Tonight I’ll be at GM Place to liveblog the Canucks game. We’ll have photos, video, commentary and a live chat up on the Fan Zone section of Canucks.com, and we’ll also be following the conversation on Twitter, using the hashtag #Canucks.
Chris Zimmerman, President and CEO of the Canucks stops by the live blog
On that section [...]
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Tags: canucks, events, non-profit, social media for change
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March 12th, 2009 by
Miss604
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This Sunday I’ll be at GM Place to live blog the Canucks game (along with Richard) as they take on the Colorado Avalanche. It will be an extra-special Fan Zone event because we’ll be out in the concourse along with the Canucks for Kids Fund Telethon, which will benefit children and families through the Canuck [...]
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March 3rd, 2009 by
Miss604
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With countdown clocks, a tag on Twitter, and media staff bulking up to report on one of the biggest days of moving and shaking in the NHL, the trade deadline tomorrow is quite the hot topic on and off line.
Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr
Last night while recording The Crazy Canucks podcast we discussed some [...]
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February 2nd, 2009 by
Miss604
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Photo credit: Duane Storey
Not only does he now have a minority stake in the Vancouver Giants (alongside Ron Toigo, Sultan Thiara, Pat Quinn, and NHL legend Gordie Howe) but Michael Buble will also be joining in on a Canucks broadcast on Team 1040 in the near future.
Michael will be sitting in for long-time Canucks colour [...]
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