created on 周二, 2008-04-22 12:40

In continuing coverage (otherwise known as "staying up with the Raincity crews' activities"), here's a recap of Bridging Media at the Great Northern Way campus (AKA The Hangar). The event was wrangled up by Megan Cole and Erica Hargreave with able assistance by RCS's KK and Bmann and the speaker roster included many of our Van-groovy eco-system.

created on 周四, 2007-08-02 11:22

This is a quick post to update customers, partners, collegues and friends of my upcoming travel schedule and the events that Bryght will be participating in over the next few months.

Gnomedex 7.0 - heading down to Seattle to see Chris and Ponzi and the rest of the uber-bloggypodvlogger digerati. Always one of my favorite events of the year. Seriously be ready to get your geek on.

Barcamp Vancouver - Vancouver's 2nd Barcamp. I'll be leading a PhotoCamp. 180+ people already registered. Hear me now, believe me later... don't miss out... this is a great grassroots technology and geek networking event.

Barcamp Beijing - the first ever Barcamp in Beijing. Scales and I are still pulling lots of details together but we have a date and a venue so the show *will* go on. :)

China Access 2008 - I will be presenting on Social Media and the Internet at this years China Access 2008 event for the creative services industries in Beijing.

created on 周三, 2007-01-03 12:22 I've been overdue in posting about the upcoming Web Directions North coming to Vancouver February 6-10th, but 2007 is upon us and it's just around the corner and I'm getting really excited.

The combination of amazing speakers, fantastic location, and after-hours events will make Web Directions North about as good as a conference can be. But the connections and friendships that you build there are what will make it even better. Here's the deal...

• WDN is a tier-1 web design and development conference that is going to be here in Van and attract the who's who of the UI, UX, and design worlds. It's gonna be all our peeps who usually we only get to see at SXSW (i.e. 'internet spring break') but here in Vancouver.
• Topics include Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more.
• WDN is put on by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. These guys are awesome collegues, mentors, and friends.
• People like Cameron Moll, George Oates, Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith will be in town presenting and training.
• There are 2 days of skiing and snowboarding up at Whistler planned for the event. That's what I'm talking about.

Everyone is gonna wanna move here after their visit! I'll be there for the event and the snowboarding and hopefully I'll lots of you there as well. :)

created on 周三, 2006-08-16 09:20

Raincity Studios and Bryght are headed back to China and are helping to organize the ad-hoc un-conference BarCamp and bringing it to Shanghai, China this September.

Scales and Crystal of Raincity, and kk+ from Bryght are heading off to China this September as part of the next wave of the China Access 2008 project, while also gearing up to initiate the first China BarCamp.

Check out the wiki and register, and register on upcoming as well if you just so happen to be in China on September 24th and want to get in on the Asian BarCamp action!

To help out while there or virtually, drop me a line or contact Crystal at Raincity.

If you want to know more info on why these folks are heading to China for China Access 2008, you can find all of those details here.

created on 周五, 2006-07-07 04:48

Last week the Bryght guys went down to Seattle for our second Gnomedex in Seattle put on by friends Chris and Ponzi. We saw lots of our geek peeps and a great time was had by all. The event was keynoted by John Edwards who was there to make connections with the blogging community and hear and learn about technology (I got my pic taken with him by Ted Leung backstage... w00t!).

My favorite talks were by Ethan Kaplan and Philip Kaplan (not related). Ethan works at Warner Brothers Records and talked about the future of music and the sales/marketing/distribution machine that propels it. Phillip runs AdBright and started FuckedCompany and gave an engaging chat about promotions and building buzz.