Submitted by Dale on July 8, 2010 - 2:05pm
In May I attended Melting Silos Case Study – Riese: From Bytes to Broadcast, a talk in the What’s Going On Salon series. From the talk description:
Join Riese series creators Kaleena Kiff and Ryan Copple as they share their combined learned experiences in navigating the constantly shifting landscape of new media in taking their Vancouver based web series production mainstream. Among their unique insights are models of remaining adaptable as the landscape shifts, strategies for harnessing a fan base and planning ahead for the jump to mainstream media. They will showcase their multiplatform property including examples of their ARG and their iPhone game app.
Kaleena Kiff is no stranger to television production. She worked as a child actor in California and after getting her BA from McGill moved behind the camera (though she does have bit-part credits on Supernatural and Smallville). Ryan Copple graduated with a Masters of Forensic Psychology in Nebraska then moved to Vancouver to pursue a film career. Their presentation was a rapid fire staccato of detail organized into topic areas. Unlike so many presentations, the detail was imbued with their personality and experience, making for both an entertaining and informative session.
Kiff started by pointing out these are still early days for Riese. Though progress is excellent, the presentation was framed as success to date, not the final summary. Here, with no specific narrative, are my notes from the presentation:
Submitted by Dale on June 30, 2010 - 1:49pm
Have you ever been asked to do something only to discover it's not the best way to deal with the situation? Throw in a language barrier and you have the situation Kara Pecknold found herself in in early 2008. As part of her thesis project she took an internship to develop a website for a Rwandan weavers cooperative. After observing the situation firsthand she experienced a mind shift. In her presentation: Designing in a Cross-Cultural Context: Lessons Learned, given to the Vancouver User Experience (VanUE) group on March 16, 2010, Pecknold told the story.
The Covaga is a women's weaving cooperative in Rwanda that extracts weaving fibre from the water hyacinth and turns it into a product. The water hyacinth is an invasive species, so its harvesting and subsequent use as weaving fibre serves a dual useful purpose. The goal of Pecknold's internship was to design a website to facilitate the sales of these woven goods to the world.
Submitted by Dale on September 23, 2009 - 1:15pm
Last week was Mozilla Service Week and local Mozilla Messaging Technical Support Lead Roland Tanglao organized a Vancouver event at the offices of Agentic. At this point many Drupalistas are probably thinking: Wait a minute, is this the same Roland who used to work at Bryght? Yes, yes it is. And Vancouver readers are probably thinking: Wait a minute, Mozilla has an office in Vancouver? Yes, yes they do.
Submitted by Dale on August 30, 2008 - 10:54pm
Submitted by Dale on August 18, 2008 - 2:01pm
In April 2008 the Vancouver League of Drupalers featured a presentation on email newsletters by Monique Trottier of Boxcar Marketing titled: Email Newsletters: WTF?, and an overview of the Simplenews module by yours truly.
The video of Monique's presentation turned out well and can be viewed with complete show notes at Email Newsletters: WTF? (6 Mistakes to Avoid), or by watching the embedded video below. It's filled with practical information and a must-see for anyone serious about using newsletters.
My presentation didn't video so well, so here's the recreated notes:
Overview
Simplenews is a module that adds newsletters to Drupal. It has the following major features:
Submitted by Dale on July 9, 2008 - 4:34pm
Submitted by Dale on July 2, 2008 - 12:23pm
Here's an event budding podcasters might be interested in:
What: Net Tuesday4 - Podcasting for Social Change
When: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 5:30 PM!
Where: WorkSpace
400, 21 Water St.
Vancouver BC
V6B 1A1
More: Meetup, Facebook Event
Sponsors: Communicopia, Social Signal, and WorkSpace
Topic: Ways Non-profits/Social Change orgs can use podcasts to spread their message
Three ways:
1) publishing conferences and repurposing stuff you are already making
2) event and campaign crowd coverage (including micro podcasting i.e. utterz)
3) special reports interviews etc.
To make it easy, we’ll cover:
1) planning
2) producing tips (with toys to demo)
3) publishing/promoting
Panel:
dave olson - moderator/podcaster
john bollwitt - podcaster and audio engineer
rob cottingham - social change technologist
roland tanglao - mobile pundit and tech-evangelist
Cross-posted at Digital Doodles
iPod Graphic by ~deleket
Submitted by Dale on April 21, 2008 - 8:24pm
Submitted by Dale on April 2, 2008 - 11:33pm
Submitted by Dale on March 10, 2007 - 1:03am
This month the Vancouver PHP Association and Vancouver League of Drupallers had a combined meeting. Mack Hardy of the Post Carbon Institution spoke on how the Post Carbon Institute was using Drupal to meet their organization's goals.
Mack has promised to post his slides, and hopefully there will also be a video of this presentation available. My summary forgoes the more involved details. Please check the slides for those.
Mack started with an overview of the Post Carbon Institute:
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