After this morning’s keynote we’ve migrated into another conference room to see Darren and Julie of Capulet and their presentation: “The Many-Armed Starfish – Social Media Marketing Success Stories”.
I’ve had to park myself at the back of the room since my MacBook is going to lose power but hopefully I’ll still be able to catch the slide that I’m (apparently) on.
This will officially be the earlier live blog I have done and also probably the longest. The eight annual Internet Marketing Conference is taking place in Vancouver today and tomorrow, featuring keynote speakers, panels and many talented people in the realm of business on and offline. I announced this week that sixty4media is a media partner and as such I’ll be covering as many sessions as I can with a live blog.
At 9:00am the IMC will begin with a welcome by John Hossack (IMC Vancouver Chair), Lennart Svanberg (IMC’s founder), and Lars Johansson (IMC director). You can check out my blog post on sixty4media for a small interview with John Hossack, who offers some insights into the International IMC. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
It has been announced that a first wave of tickets to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games will go on sale in less than a month.
Thirty per cent of tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be made available to the public, a spokesman for the organizing committee said Tuesday.
The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee aims to reduce the number of empty seats at all events with its new plan for ticket allocation and sales, which will begin Oct. 3, said Dave Cobb, VANOC’s executive vice-president. [CBC]
From October 3rd until November 7th you’ll be able to grab your share of the 1.6 million tickets that will be going on sale during “Phase 1”. However, this is a far more complex process than heading over to your neighbourhood Ticketmaster outlet.
“Phase 1 of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games ticket program will move through four stages: Application Period, Lotteries, Notification and Exclusive Add-On Period.”
“Phase 2 Early 2009: Remaining unsold tickets will be available for public sale. Canadian residents who missed the initial application period can purchase these unsold tickets at this time.”
“Phase 2 Mid to Late 2009: All tickets purchased up to this point will be assigned specific seat locations – determined once venue configurations have been finalized.”
“Phase 3: Once the seat assignment period is complete, any remaining unsold tickets will be available for purchase. Tickets purchased at this time will be sold directly into available seat locations.”
Tickets will start at $25 for some events and will jump to four-figures for things like the opening and closing ceremonies (currently set at $1,100, $750, $550, and $175 price ranges). A complete price guide is available on the website.
With the region being turned on its head, worries about facilities and highways, and the amazing spectacle in Beijing (yet still not without controversy) – how are locals feeling about the Games right about now?
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Blogger relations panel at Convergence08 Photo credit: Raul on Flickr
I have been asked to sit on a panel at the upcoming Making a Scene Conference that will be taking place at Granville Island from November 13-16, 2008. I’ll be talking about “The New Face of Marketing: Facebook, text and the bloggers’ world,” alongside Rebecca Coleman, Simon Ogden (of The Next Stage) and Rob Parker (YaYah Studios).
My participation was made possible by Rebecca Coleman of Titania Productions. She also contributes to a blog (where you can find my interview) and podcast about marketing for artists and small business. I’m looking forward to the panel and delving into a whole other realm of social media for this specific industry.
I think I’m a bad iPhone owner. I haven’t upgraded, I don’t have a data plan (meaning, it’s a jailbroken, first gen), but truth is – it’s working just the way I need it to. I decided to try out a video recording app since my Flip Camera seems to think it’s full even though there are no files on it (but that’s a whole other blog post).
I took this quick video at the beach yesterday as I evaluated the “iPhone Video Recorder” app.
iPhone Video Recording. Warning: John is topless.
Watching Phaedra spin
Getting the video off my iPhone wasn’t seamless, but it was easy. I usually open up Image Capture to scoop photos and video onto my computer since that way you can pick the photos you want to import, as opposed to iPhoto which just imports all. However, I couldn’t find these video files (saved at mp4’s). I then went go to the app and choose “share”, then I could choose to send the video to myself by email (or upload to YouTube).
Of course this was before I discovered that the folks who made the app, DreamCatcher, released a “to Mac” file transfer utility. The video app was launched in the spring and since then have done several updates, including the ability to make your own signature (registered users only). They have also made a sound recorder.
The app is good, the quality is as-expected, and as John said while watching the video record and encode; “Sometimes you really underestimate the computing power of the iPhone.”
After this morning’s keynote we’ve migrated into another conference room to see Darren and Julie of Capulet and their presentation: “The Many-Armed Starfish – Social Media Marketing Success Stories”.
