Tag Archives: Vancouver

Curators Corner: The Week in Social Media

Posted by on September 19, 2011 at 11:05 pm.

Our weekly installment of social media tips and tricks: Content Strategy: 7 Tips to Make Your Blog Stickier: Tips to help you increase the time visitors spend on your blog and the chances they’ll return often. (Mashable) Geek Speak: Marie Chatterton, speaker at Social Media Week Vancouver: On Tuesday (September 20) at W2, Chatterton will introduce [...]

Searching for Change from Pole 2 Pole

Posted by on June 7, 2011 at 6:11 pm.

The team at Social Media Club Vancouver is well known for their love of social media. We also have a passion for social change. This weekend the two areas are intersecting when a special visitor and his friend arrive in town. Meet Victor and Josh Victor Victor Eekhof is an interactive media specialist who has [...]

Recap of Projecting Change Through Social Media (Club)

Posted by on May 25, 2011 at 1:31 pm.

Yuri Artibise gives a recap of last week’s Projecting Change Through Social Media (Club) event we co-presented with Projecting Change Film Festival on Tuesday, May 17th. (Cross posted on ProjectingChange.ca) Last Tuesday’s Projecting Change Through Social Media was an incredible event. A partnership between by SMCYVR and the Projecting Change School Media team, it was held at [...]

SMCYVR October Event: Online Privacy Policy and Ethics with Christopher Parsons

Posted by on September 29, 2010 at 2:24 pm.

Image via Wikipedia There’s just over a week left till our next event, and this should be another hot ticket: Online Privacy Policy and Ethics with Christopher Parsons. Looking at the issue from both the point of view of a business, which wishes to collect information, and an individual, who wants to protect his/her privacy, [...]

Meet the Geek dinner September 21st!

Posted by on September 6, 2010 at 6:52 pm.

Social Media Club of Vancouver, in association with Vancouver Food Tour, is very proud to invite you all to a Meet the Geek dinner on Tuesday, September 21st. A portion of the proceeds will go towards a very good cause: completing the post-production of the independent documentary With Glowing Hearts, which focuses on the way [...]

Save the Date! September 2nd Event: How To Protect Your Data and Privacy Online

Posted by on August 19, 2010 at 3:15 pm.

Hardly a couple of months seem to go by without Facebook introducing a new privacy setting. Case in point: yesterday, the social network introduced its “Places” feature, which allows us to “check-in” at venues (à la Foursquare and Gowalla). However, all this sharing of information means that your Internet privacy is more vulnerable than ever. [...]

Tech Karaoke: Oh What a Night!

Posted by on July 13, 2010 at 3:12 am.

Yes, it’s a bad 70′s song but everybody likes it, so there! 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 [...]