Media Kit
Name: Vancouver Blog Miss 604
Founded: November 2004, Rebecca Bollwitt
History:
Since 1997 Rebecca Bollwitt has been working with streaming media and online content distribution. Her career officially began in 2000 with the world’s largest webcaster of financial audio, eventually moving her to Boston. Returning home to the West Coast, Miss604.com was created as a blog by Metro Vancouver girl who knows, loves, and missed this region after spending time away. The site has since grown to be nationally recognized as one of the best hyper-local sites in the country.
As of 2007, Rebecca began writing a corporate and industry blogs and added the production of screencasts, podcasts and video blogging to reach out to clients (professionally) and readers in the blog realm.
Rebecca attributes her success to staying real, focusing on community, her local roots and heritage, and the social and professional connections brewed and nurtured within the TechCouver community.
View Rebecca’s profile on LinkedIn
Awards:
Press:
Television, magazine, newspaper, and radio appearances can be found in the sidebar of this page.
“…Rebecca’s blog is, in my opinion, one of the few truly Vancouver-specific blogs out there, that lacks the sort of pomp and upper-crust pitfalls that plague many of the city’s self proclaimed Vancouver-specific blogs…” [Matthew Good on The Tyee]
“There is a certain charm to reading about the life of a female twenty something in Vancouver, and although I can’t quite put my finger on what that something is, the blog Miss 604 has it in spades.”
[Dock Currie, Metro News - Vancouver]
“Podcaster, hyper-local blogger, new media outreach wiz, mainstream media pundit ~ Vancouver’s new ‘blogebrity,’…” [Vancouver Tech Women to Watch in 2008]
“As an erstwhile and once again Vancouver resident, Rebecca Bollwitt studiously documents the goings-on of the city’s burgeoning metropolitan and digerati scenes… Her smart and sassy writing style combined with her penchant for wearing way-too small geek shirts makes Miss604 a must-read, and her honest-to-god technology credentials give her the chops to go a few rounds with the best of ‘em…”[Wired.com's Sexy Geeks 2007]
Events:
The following events have been live blogged on Miss604.com
Speaking engagements:
Guest lecturer @ Simon Fraser University (SFU) (October 2007)
Northern Voice (February 2008)
Massive Technology Show (April 2008)
Guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University (SFU) (May 2008)
Credits:
Site Design & Photography: John Bollwitt, Rebecca Bollwitt, Duane Storey
Banner and Logo Work: Raincity Studios
Guest Blog Posts: Various Authors
Inspiration: Matthew Good for enabling my first live blog in 2006, after which many followed.
Media Sponsorship:
If you have a new or social media event, technology conference or anything that others might want to read about on a blog, consider a media sponsorship by Miss604.com in the form of a live blog for your audience (in attendance, and on the web).
