by Guacira on July 26, 2010
Icon by bmckenzie (source: Flickr)
Summer in Vancouver isn’t the only thing that’s sizzling. Geotagging and mobile location services are hot!
On August 5th, Social Media Club Vancouver, in association with Nokia Canada, is taking social media out of the office and into the great outdoors for its first Digital Scavenger Hunt. More specifically, to Trout Lake Beach, in an event that everyone will enjoy.
Bring your mobile phones and cameras, and get ready to scour neighbouring spots for clues. The digital scavenger hunt is family-friendly and there’s no cost to attend. Mobile media mavens from Social Media Club Vancouver and Nokia Canada will be on site to guide participants on how to use mobile location tools to win prizes.
The event will run from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Trout Lake Park is easily accessible via Skytrain, and Nokia Canada will be on site demonstrating their latest phones. Some of them are so user-friendly that even a five-year old could operate them!
And the last one to check in on Foursquare is out! (Just kidding…)
by raincoaster on July 13, 2010
Yes, it’s a bad 70′s song but everybody likes it, so there!
A Brazilian, an American, and a Mexican walk into a bar...
and walk out two hours later as friends
That’s how it went, folks. Sure, it was nice having the government declare Tech Karaoke night a national holiday (fireworks? really? you shouldn’t have!) although it did leave attendees a little thin on the ground. It was great to see the usual suspects displaying some unusual aural talents, in particular Kemp Edmonds, who apparently knows the lyrics to every song ever written and CANNOT BE RESTRAINED in the presence of a karaoke machine. That alone makes it a cinch we’ll be doing this again.
Heather Watson sings the grand finale at Tech Karaoke YVR
We also have to give a shout-out to the lovely and talented Miss Heather Watson, who is known up and down the East Side as the queen of Vangroover’s most competitive karaoke-fests, and for good reason. Where Kemp got the party started, Heather sang our grand finale, leaving the crowd somewhat speechless in appreciation; nobody expected real pipes on karaoke night!
I think Dennis (Tuffy) said it best: that’s the thing about Canada. You see people from all different backgrounds, all different races getting together and just having fun. Dennis joined us from the toasty environs of Phoenix, Arizona, while I think the next farthest-traveller only came from Steveston, but all were welcome, and a good time was had by all, except maybe the few who had to read their lyrics in white six point Times New Roman against a purple and black background of a crowd at a disco. Yeah, maybe not so much fun for them.
Till the next time! Tech Karoke: be there, or be…bi-laterally congruently rectilinear!
STOP! in the name of love!
pix courtesy Guacira Naves of OnlineStrategy and Cathy Browne
