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Help Us Program Workshop Speakers & Topics

Monday, November 9th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

With winter quickly approaching, we’re looking to hold another workshop in our series, and we’d like to find out from you: which topic(s) are you interested in hearing about? Who would you like to hear from at our monthly gatherings?

We threw out a tweet late last week to get a sense for what you’re looking for, and we got back some interesting topics:

  • Wordpress: Zero to Hero
  • Taking online campaigns offline: Creating live experiences
  • Creating an online/offline community
  • Developing your business/marketing plan
  • Transitioning from BAM to the online marketspace
  • Web sites as business development tools
  • Incorporating apps and widgets into your business
  • Personal and professional branding
  • Social media strategies
  • Cause marketing
  • Creating strategic business alliances and why it’s important
  • Small business entrepreneurship

Your suggestions will help guide programming for the coming months. Let us know who you would like to see at our monthly gatherings and workshops! Drop in a comment below, send us an email or 140 characters @RefreshEvents.

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StayFresh12 Content Roundup

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

We’d like to thank our amazing speakers Tim Scollick, Ben Vinegar, Joshua Wehner, and Colin Bowern, as well as all our attendees for coming out on a rainy Monday evening. For the second consecutive month, over 50 of attendees were new faces, which makes us very happy. We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events!

We’ve posted the presentation decks online, including the audio for Colin’s presentation. Unfortunately, GarageBand had crashed during the first half of our gathering, so all the audio for the other presentations was lost.

Episode 6 of the StayFresh podcast will be available shortly. Stay tuned!

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Call for Speakers: September Gathering

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

We are currently looking for 5-6 Ignite speakers for our September gathering. The theme for our September event is “Code”. The types of speakers we’re looking for are:

  • Front-End Designers (those who work with XHTML, CSS, & JavaScript)
  • Developers & Programmers (Ruby on Rails, .NET, and the like)
  • Rich Media Developers (Flash, Flex, & AIR)

What’s Ignite?

Ignite is a presentation format derived from the Japanese presentation format commonly known as “Pecha Kucha“. Each speaker is given 5 minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. More details about the Ignite format are available here.

How do I apply to speak?

Easy! Simply fill out this form with your details and we’ll get back to you once we’ve approved your presentation.

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StayFresh Podcast: Episode 5

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Episode 5 of the StayFresh podcast is now available for download!

Part 1 (Ignite Presentations):

Part 1 (Ignite Presentations):

Part 2 (Jonathan Dunn):

Part 2 (Jonathan Dunn):

How do I get it?

1. You can subscribe to our podcast from the iTunes store. This is the easiest way as iTunes will automatically download the latest episodes for you.

2. If you have an RSS reader, subscribing to our podcast RSS feed is yet another method, and just as easy.

3. And finally, you can download them: Part 1 | Part 2

We hope you enjoy this episode! If you have any feedback about our podcast, drop us a line at podcasts@refresh-events.ca. We’d love to hear from you!

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StayFresh10 Content Roundup

Monday, July 27th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

First of all, we’d like to thank each and every one of you for coming out to last Monday’s gathering; over 50% of attendees were new faces. We’re quite happy about that, and we hope this trend continues in the future.

A quick heads up to let you know we’ve uploaded all of Monday’s presentation decks to our SlideSpace; the audio for the slidecasts and the podcast will be available later today.

EDIT: Slidecasts are synched up with the audio. Check out our SlideSpace and listen in!

Some other post-event content that deserves to be mentioned:

If you’ve written a blog post/posted other content, please throw up a link in the comments below, or hit us up on Twitter.

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