Archive for the category "charity"

Net Squared Live Blog: Save the World with Drupal

Comments 11 by Rebecca Bollwitt

This month’s Net Tuesday meetup will be taking place tonight at Workspace in Gastown. The theme is “How Drupal can help you save the world” and the event will feature talks from Boris Mann (BootupLabs), Scott Nelson and Karianne Blank (FearlessCity.ca), and Phillip Djwa (Agentic). More information is also available on the Facebook event. My […]

Giant Ant's Urban Project

Comments 2 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Photo credit: James Sherrett on Flickr Last week I was interviewed by Leah and Jay of Vancouver video house, Giant Ant Media. We got to talking about some of their upcoming projects, the largest will include a trip to Tanzania. This will be a part of Urban Project, which is “a non-profit society dedicated to […]

Social Media for Change: Updates and Upcoming Events

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Truth be told, I get a lot of emails from companies, organizations and people around town looking to get some extra promotion for their event. I’m really glad that they turn to me and my blog (or bloggers in general) to help get the word out but sometimes I don’t have the time to address […]

Blogathon Vancouver 2008: The Home Stretch

Comments 4 by Rebecca Bollwitt

For the last few weeks I have been trying to organize a way for Vancouver bloggers to stay up late and raise money for the charity of their choice. Using the Blogathon model, with the lack of their technology, we pieced together this effort and I think that everyone involved has done an amazing job. […]