Archive for the ‘work’ Category

Techvibes Job Fair, Launch Party Vancouver and VIDFEST Kickoff Gala

May 21st, 2008 by Miss604   8 Comments

Sometimes I think I lead a busy life in social media because I have three to four events a week. Well I must be reaching some kind of new face-melting plateau because tonight I have somehow booked myself into three events… just tonight. Here’s the scoop:
Ever wonder where you can find job listings in [...]

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The Value of Blog Posts and Bloggers for Hire

May 12th, 2008 by Miss604   6 Comments

I know I am a student to the DaveO “F*ck Stats, Make Art” school of thought but I’m under the impression that some people would like your art, and they would like to make a lot of money off of it leaving you with no compensation except the lovely feeling of having created said art.
Bloggers [...]

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Justifying Chill Out Spaces

January 29th, 2008 by Keith   6 Comments

The following is a guest post, contributed by Keith
So much in today’s world needs to be justified with numbers showing us that there is a quantifiable value for every decision. When a company spends money, more often than not they want to know how spending that money will make them more money. This [...]

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Launch Party Vancouver Wrap Up

September 29th, 2007 by Miss604   3 Comments

Thursday evening I attended Launch Party Vancouver. They had the entire restaurant, Section 3, booked up and anyone from PR professionals to tech geeks were able to mix, mingle and schmooze over appies.
I’ll leave the Launch Party explanation to Boris: “…what I can best summarize as being a social gathering for Vancouver’s tech community, from [...]

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Yaletown, Day One

September 11th, 2007 by Miss604   9 Comments

Almost four months ago I signed on with my company, based out of Gastown. I’ve been blogging about my discovery of the neighbourhood ever since. Where to get lunch, what to see and do, and where to get a great sammich. Well yesterday our company moved out of our cramped, non-natural-lighting office space on [...]

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Tools to get the job done: Screencasting

August 8th, 2007 by Miss604   5 Comments

I’ve discovered some tools, apps and tricks that have made a part of my ‘real life’ job a lot easier lately. Basically I wanted to start screencasting - providing an online demo video of our new web-based application. After searching and putting the word out to the wonderful Vancity Tech Swarm folks I found the [...]

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Harvey, Ruby, Crackbook and Wordpress

June 13th, 2007 by Miss604   10 Comments

My boss sent me an IM on Skype the other day talking about how fun it would be to work with the following people - and I wholeheartedly have to agree. I mean my office is pretty fun, very relaxed, but this is just hilarious.

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on [...]

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Streaming Presentation Apps for Mac

May 29th, 2007 by Miss604   2 Comments

I put the question out in the tech-o-sphere last week and haven’t been able to find any answers until today. Basically, we were looking for a desktop-sharing, online web conferencing application or service (e.g. Webex) that would work with a Mac. Everyone I asked seemed to think it was something that’s needed, and would [...]

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Blogging to a Job

May 27th, 2007 by Miss604   13 Comments

“On-line journals have become hot tool for those looking to land a position or ferret out new opportunities” - Mary Gooderham [Globe & Mail]
I was sitting at work the other day and someone handed me the Careers page of the Globe and Mail - not being immediately insulted I noticed the headline he was pointing [...]

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Preaching PR

April 20th, 2007 by Miss604   2 Comments

I’ve been lurking on many PR sites for a while now - ever since I found it essential to educate myself about what corporate communications should be doing in 2007. I’ve been in the industry for 7 years (doing anything from webcasting financial content to formatting press releases) and some people just don’t “get” it. [...]

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