We’ve had a number of requests for video clips of Scott’s session at Social Media Week. Big thanks to @karimkanji for recording and uploading (our apologies for the low-light!).
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Video Clips: Scott Stratten, “Social Media Trends in 2010 and Beyond”
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | By: Justin Kozuch
Check-in and Win at Refresh Events
Monday, January 18th, 2010 | By: Justin Kozuch
I’ll be the first one to admit it: I’m a bit of a Foursquare junkie. When I discovered the “Foursquare for Business” page on their website, I started to think about how we could integrate their platform into our monthly gatherings. From what I’ve seen so far, Foursquare is an excellent promotional engine for contests, giveaways, customer loyalty programs and other customer acquisition and retention initiatives.
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Speakers Call for 2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010 | By: Justin Kozuch
It’s that time of year, and once again we’re looking for speakers for our 2010 season. Here’s what we’re in search of:
Production
We’re looking for coders and programmers with expertise in the following areas:
- Front-End Designers: XHTML, CSS (frameworks such as 960 Grid System, BluePrint, YUI Grids, etc), JavaScript (libraries such as jQuery, YUI, MooTools, etc)
- Developers & Programmers (Ruby, Rails/Grails, Django, Python, PHP, .NET, etc)
- Rich Media Developers (Flash, Flex, & AIR)
We’re particularly interested in hosting speakers with expertise in HTML5 and CSS3, or those that have used new languages to develop interesting applications and experiences. Developers with experimental or in-beta works are also encouraged to apply.
Creative
If you’re more into the creative side of the digital media space, we’re looking for:
- Visual Designers
- Information Architects/Interaction Designers
We’re interested in hosting speakers with expertise in user-centred design, user experience, interaction design and other aspects of HCI.
Mobile
If you’re developing applications for the iPhone or Android platforms, or have some unique insights into the mobile world to share, we’d like to hear about it! We’re looking for:
- Mobile Application Developers (Objective-C, etc)
- Mobile Marketers
Technology
Outside of the web/creative/mobile space, we’re also looking for people with experience in:
These topics can be presented by way of an Ignite presentation, or if you have a larger presentation already completed, a guest presentation.
I have expertise in one (or another) of these topics, and I’d like to speak.
Great! In addition to our speaker search efforts, we field applications to help us determine our programming at monthly gatherings. If you would like to speak at an upcoming event, please fill out the application form.
Can I recommend someone to speak at your event?
Absolutely. If you know someone who is doing interesting things in the digital media space, let us know. We’re always looking out for people working on interesting projects.
We’ll be keeping this post updated through 2010 as our needs become change, and as new technologies/topic requests come our way.
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2009: A Year In Review
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch
As we look back on the past 12 months, we’re finishing the year on something of a high.
We’ve gone from meeting at the Gladstone, to meeting at CSI, to now convening at The Drake Hotel. Attendance numbers are rising every so slightly each time and the reach of our newsletter is growing. We supported #hohoto (the summer edition) by donating to the Daily Bread Food Bank, and raised $400 for War Child at the Refresh Summer Social. We’ve held two workshops, and have recently announced a third. And finally, we were fortunate enough to be part of Net Change Week.
But with all these great moments and accomplishments…
We haven’t stayed true to our word.
Refresh Events started as a community for web designers and developers. For front-line workers in the digital media industry. For those that work in the trenches. Looking back at the programming we’ve offered, we didn’t stay true to our vision. We instead opted to offer content that wasn’t part of our mandate in order to fill rooms. I always believed in quality over quantity; I sacrificed that in order to get as many people as possible into a room. That won’t happen in 2010.
Does that mean we won’t ever talk about social media or entrepreneurship ever again? No, of course not. But we are going to focus less on these topics. There are plenty of great organizations that provide this type of programming already, and we certainly don’t want to step on anyone’s toes.
What we are interested in focusing on is those topics that we set out to cover: web design, application development, information architecture, accessibility and other topics of this nature.
So, what’s next?
Over the holidays, we are taking a look at Refresh Events from a number of perspectives, including whether or not there exists provincial/federal funding or grants programs that we can apply for to keep the organization going.
I’m confident that we’ll emerge in 2010 stronger, and with a clearer vision for the future of this organization and the community.
We’ll see you in the new year.
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New Email Subscription Center & The Weekly Events Newsletter
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch
A few weeks ago, we announced our interest in sending out a weekly newsletter of web/technology/PR/communications/social media events in the city. Since then, we’ve refined our event collection strategy, sourced new event listing sites and most importantly, redesigned our email subscription center.
The last of these tasks would have made all the others pointless were it not for the amazing JavaScript and PHP skills of Brian Gilham. I would like to publicly thank Brian for donating his time and expertise in helping us launch our new email subscription center.
Similarly, it is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of our Weekly Events newsletter. In this newsletter, you will find a listing of a large number of events taking place in the city of Toronto, covering the wide array of web, technology, public relations, communications and social media event available to our community. The first edition of this newsletter will be arriving in your inbox around 8:00am this coming Monday December 14th, and will continue every week.
If you haven’t signed up for either of our newsletters, we encourage you to do so; simply fill out the form in the sidebar on the right, and don’t forget to confirm your subscription (check your spam folder in case the email gets filtered as junk, as can sometimes happen). Finally, we’d like to remind you of our email preferences center where you can update your email address should you need to, or specify your birthday if you would like to give away how young you are.
If you have any questions about our email marketing practices or our privacy policy, don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter, or send us an email.
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