Rod Cooper organized BC Social Media Summit April 7th as a fundraiser for his participation in The Ride To Conquer Cancer . Speakers included Chris Burdge, Rod Phillips, Tracy McAllister, Paul Holmes, Terri Davies, Rob Cooper, Ross Dunn, Janis La Couvée. My presentation "Building a Brand, Lessons Learned from Twestival Victoria" is here.   from BCSocialMediaSummit.com Evening tweetups continued sporadically. We met at the Bard and Banker … [Read more...]

Babes Go Bare For Cancer  had a scheduled Head Shave and silent auction March 6th and, on a whim, the week before, I tweeted that I would shave my head if I could raise $1000. Guess what?    Babes Go Bare was founded by Trish Caddy in the fall of 2009. She connected with the local social media community for much of her sponsorship. Total fundraising efforts for the 2010 calendar were $19,000. The 2011 calendar features many "babes and blokes" … [Read more...]

The year began January 2nd with a movie #victoriatweetup . Cindy Stephenson looked down the row of people and said "a year ago I didn't know one of these ppl". It's the power of Twitter. (I met Frans Jonker at that tweetup!).  Although it took until the fall of 2010 for them to become regular, the first WestShore tweetup was January 8th.  Social Media Club Victoria continued to attract powerful international speakers. Julien Smith, … [Read more...]