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Many local businesses in the Petite-Nation are still not online. This is not a criticism; it is where the opportunity lies.
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Many local businesses in the Petite-Nation are still not online. This is not a criticism; it is where the opportunity lies.
By Robert ScalesEight months with no guests on the island: the community is what the dive centre still has. How to keep it together when there is nothing to sell.
By Robert ScalesA dive centre is a guest in the village. Observations from Nusa Ceningan on working with a small community rather than simply operating within it.
By Robert ScalesVancouver Digital Week showed what's possible when the city's film, gaming, music and tech industries begin to converge.
By Jeff TraynorWebVisions 2009, the conference exploring design, user experience and the business of the web, takes place May 20th-22nd in Portland, Oregon.
By Jeff TraynorJeff Traynor's first SXSW: mobile apps and location-based social networks, the China business panel, hallway conversations and the SXNW party.
By Jeff TraynorA review of the 2009 Northern Voice blogging and social media conference in Vancouver: citizen media and the Olympics, and rock and roll photography.
By Jeff TraynorNorthern Voice, Canada's leading Social Media and Personal Blogging Conference, begins tomorrow at UBC, now in its fifth year.
By Jeff TraynorKris Krug moderates a SXSW Interactive 2009 panel on the misconceptions and conundrums of doing web business in China, and asks which topics to cover.
By Kris KrugHomeless Nation, a Bryght-hosted Drupal site, recently won two awards: most excellent work in technology use and community building.
By Dave OlsonVideo of my presentation at Media Democracy Day Vancouver 2008 – Panel 3, The Battle for New Media and Open Communication.
By Holistic HybridNet Neutrality pops into the news from time to time, but unless you are a policy wonk it is hard to grok the issues. A primer.
By Dave OlsonA feast of Drupalish delights was enjoyed in Berkeley, California at the weekend: a session-by-session report from BADcamp 08.
By Katherine BaileyA preview of Bay Area Drupal Camp 2008 at U.C. Berkeley, a look back at BADCamp 2007, and a report from Montreal Drupal Camp.
By Dave OlsonConference notes from DrupalCamp Seattle, Drupal Camp Victoria, Digital Identity World and Drupal Camp LA on open source, OpenID and infocards.
By Audrey FooRecap of the Shanghai Drupal meetup where Makara presented the Drupal 6 Form API, followed by the year's last barbecue.
By Peggy XieHere's some community building funtimes - not much technical geekery here but some fun banter and a sense of how the extended Drupal tribe roll.
By Dave OlsonRecently I have delved a little more into understanding more about topics related to distributed search and identity.
By Audrey FooRecap of the sixth Shanghai Drupal user meetup, with Mike Yao's slides on AHAH dynamic forms in Drupal 6.
By Peggy XieA co-op student sums up four months at Raincity Studios: working in the open with the Drupal community and building on the SMS Framework module.
By Tylor ShermanChecking in from legendary geek-fest Gnomedex, where RCS' KK kicked off the event with a great preso about making better photos.
By Dave OlsonA bnetTV interview from nextMEDIA in Banff: Kris Krug on framing net neutrality as digital rights, the music industry, and mobile-first Web 3.0.
By Dave OlsonWe had a good Drupal Camp Shanghai! Over 60 people attended over 12 sessions and discussions despite the heavy rain on Sunday.
By Reno PengCrib notes from the first day and a half of VIDFest 2008, including tips from the Blogger Outreach panel on how PR firms should approach bloggers.
By Dave OlsonNotes from VIDFest 2008: Chris Anderson on the economics of free, a crowd sourcing panel, Dooce and Mighty Girl on blogging, and more.
By Dave OlsonA recap of Kris Krug at ICE 08 in Toronto: a panel on leveraging social networks, mobile delivery, gaming innovation and a first look at Spore.
By Dave OlsonA recap of Bridging Media at Great Northern Way, where Kris Krug and Boris Mann spoke on broadcast and digital media converging.
By Dave OlsonCCI2008 wrap-up: presenting on open source and data sharing, controlling slides over Bluetooth, and a lunch talk with IBM's DITA architect on DITA in Drupal.
By Boris MannLive notes from day 1 of Content Convergence & Integration 2008: Confabb, user-generated rich media, community managers and open source.
By Boris MannDay 3 at SXSW08 was action packed, here are my highlights.
By Roland TanglaoThe atmosphere was a bit geekier than usual yesterday evening at the Abbey Road in Shanghai, at Raincity Studios' first geek meetup there.
By Ronan BerderDave O, Roland Tanglao and Richard Eriksson preview the Internet Boot Camp track at Moose Camp, ahead of Northern Voice 2008.
By Dave OlsonAfter the success of last year's eLiberatica the organizers are going ahead with an 08' version.
By Smith MilnerHigh hopes for Raincity Studios, Vancouver and open source in 2008, and why the bazaar model beats cathedral-style management.
By Audrey FooThe RCS team built the new eHarlequin Community, and within minutes of launch readers were signing up, blogging and participating.
By Dave OlsonVancouver makes the Intelligent Community Forum's Smart21, and what the broadband economy criteria say about the city's strengths and weaknesses.
By Dave OlsonStream of consciousness notes from the Vancouver League of Drupalers: Lauren Bacon on gender in technology, plus Drupal site demos.
By Roland TanglaoA Raincity Studios contingent is southern-bound for BAD Camp, the Bay Area Drupal Camp in Berkeley: a community-built conference.
By Dave OlsonThe freethenet.ca crew of tech-revolutionaries met up last night to discuss "what's up? what's next how's it going?"
By Dave OlsonIn Vancouver, like many other cities, complaining about the weather is the local pasttime.
By Dave OlsonThere's no need to wait for the mythical City of Vancouver WiFi. Build your own WiFi mesh today with a Meraki box.
By Roland TanglaoMy Anatomy of a Drupal Install Profile session at DrupalCamp LA was well received; the updated slides are now available.
By Roland TanglaoI am in Olympia, Washington today meeting with a few Drupalists and community enthusiasts and recorded an episode of Radiocity Radio about Olyblog.net.
By Dave OlsonBuilt an awesome Drupal website or webapp and want to share it or clone it to save config time? Then Drupal Install Profiles are for you!
By Roland TanglaoDave O, the newly minted ambassador and erstwhile evangelist for Raincity Studios, offers a bit of commentary on the Vancouver tech scene.
By Dave OlsonIt was great to be part of the organizing team of the second Barcamp in Vancouver.
By Robert ScalesBeing the newest runt at Raincity Studios, and a first time Gnomedex'er, I came into the event not knowing what to expect.
By Steve KruegerFORpeace.net is a recent Bryght Light site, already compelling and moving, built on Drupal with the Bryght Basic install profile.
By Roland TanglaoWhat if you built an online community and nobody showed up? Common Craft's 'social designers' help communities start on the right foot.
By Roland TanglaoWeb of Change is not your typical tech conference, and its Drupal website on a Bryght VPS lets every participant live blog their session notes.
By Roland TanglaoKinan Sweidan of ximda.com on the state of geo location on mobile devices: GPS, tower ID, wifi and Bluetooth, and their limits.
By Erik HermansThe Ask a Ninja keynote closing WebVisions 2007: the past and future of online video, and what they learned from other web series.
By Erik HermansPart II of notes from Garrett Dimon's WebVisions 2007 session: document and code better, avoid specialization, cut features.
By Mark YuasaBrian Jamison's Must Have Apps at WebVisions 2007: Trac, Drupal and an as yet unnamed Ruby on Rails ecommerce app.
By Mark YuasaTodd Wilkens of Adaptive Path on the revival of user experience: to create great user experiences you must understand people.
By Erik HermansDavid Pescovitz's WebVisions 2007 keynote on coping with cognitive overload and sipping from the information firehose.
By Erik HermansNotes from Garrett Dimon's WebVisions 2007 session on improving interface design: understanding design, cultivating culture, thinking critically.
By Mark YuasaAct locally, think globally. That's one of the premises behind the Bryght VPS site ChangeEverything.ca, built on Drupal.
By Roland TanglaoRoland Tanglao's EverythingCasting talk at Saskatchewan Interactive 2007: Listen. Create Compelling Content Constantly. Repeat.
By Roland TanglaoDay one at SXSW Interactive: the CSS panel moderated by Eric Meyer on the history, rise and current state of CSS.
By Erik HermansNotes from a SXSW session on finding design inspiration with Jason Santa Maria and Rob Weychert of Happy Cog Studios.
By Erik HermansThe first SXSW Interactive 2007 panel explored the hype around Snakes on a Plane and the user generated content created by fans.
By Robert ScalesNorthern Voice was amazing again this year. I dare say the best ever!
By Roland TanglaoHow does Open Source affect the future of the software industry? Has Open Source "won"? A panel at the Vancouver PHP 2007 conference.
By Roland TanglaoTechnology branding for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games: ideas from New Media BC Day at the Great Northern Way Campus.
By Megan ColeRaincity Studios' client Cope 378 has just launched a new Drupal community site called Take Back The Power.
By Megan ColeA ten-step guide to organizing a BarCamp: date, wiki and mailing list, graphics, promotion, volunteers, sponsors, venue and lift-off.
By Crystal WilliamsLast night I attended Vancouver's first CaseCamp, an un-conference focused on marketing that makes use of technology.
By Megan ColeHow China’s first barcamp came together in under a month: planning, sponsors, a blocked wiki, and 60+ participants in 19 sessions.
By Robert ScalesSteve and I spent the day at GovCamp, an un-conference for government bodies learning Web 2.0 and social networking.
By Erik HermansAt BarCamp Shanghai, the first of its kind in China, Kris Krug of Bryght will facilitate a PhotoCamp and PhotoWalk through Shanghai.
By Megan ColeWe are half way through our Saturday at BarCampVancouver, the 24-hour stint we call BarCamp.
By Megan ColeMatthew Trentacoste, Kris Krug and Warwick Patterson held a BarCampVancouver session on anything and everything photographic.
By Megan ColeRaincity Studios and Bryght are headed back to China and are helping to organize BarCamp, bringing it to Shanghai this September.
By Kris KrugI just spent the last 2 days at BlogHer in San Jose, California.
By Megan ColeElise Bauer gets traffic. Notes on her session about what you can do to build your traffic and keep people coming back.
By Megan ColePeople around the world jump at ways to try and help those suffering when major catastrophes strike — and the blogosphere is a direct resource.
By Megan ColeMatchtag is the latest "match-up" site to hit the internet, but it's NOT a dating site: it's a place to find friends for any activity at any given time.
By Megan ColeWebvisions panel on the integration of social media: Brian Oberkirch, Jeremiah Owyang and Dan Saffer on community marketing.
By Megan ColeWorkshop on the process of creating and managing iterative projects and applications with speaker Kelly Goto.
By Boris ChowThere are a lot of control issues to try to bust through in business blogging - DON'T have a PR firm run your blog.
By Megan ColeTwo days of talking mobile, games, carriers, publishers and users: quality matters immensely and people in this industry want and need to connect.
By Megan ColeJason Ford, VP of Strategy and Planning at Namco, moderated a panel discussion on the mobile games community.
By Megan ColeA wrap-up of Drupal Camp Seattle 2006, a Drupal training camp and hack-fest for about 50 aspiring Drupal geeks at the Hugo House in Seattle.
By Kris KrugInspired by Kevin Marks' BloggerCon IV videos, I recorded DrupalCamp Seattle with an old Canon Elura and QuickTime Broadcaster. Lessons learned.
By Roland TanglaoRaincity has been heading south to Gnomedex for several years, but this was the rookie year for MC.
By Megan ColeWhat should PR and marketing departments give bloggers? Three P's: permalinks, product info, and personality.
By Boris MannNotes from Jeremy Zawodny's Gnomedex session: too much social software, not enough time — and a call to think about content and people.
By Megan ColeTagJag is the new name to Pirillo's metasearch engine, Gada.be — plus the VCs' feedback on how to get ready for the big pitch.
By Megan ColePhillip Torrone, aka Gadget Geek, asked us why open source is good — and how open source hardware could change the world.
By Megan ColeDay one of Gnomedex 06 in Seattle: RSS Days, open standards, broadband, Senator John Edwards and new product launches.
By Megan ColeAll hands were on deck bright and early this morning for the first of two days of Drupal Camp Seattle.
By Megan ColeDay two of VIDFEST opens on Granville Island with a keynote from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on innovation and the future of games.
By Megan ColeRobert Ouimet and I present EverythingCasting at Vidfest: promoting yourself cheaply on the two-way web with photo blogs, podcasts and videoblogs.
By Roland TanglaoHal Josephson of MediaSense opens VIDFEST's International Partnering Forum on Granville Island with the questions behind a partnering strategy.
By Megan ColeI just returned from E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, in LA and what a busy week it was!
By Kris KrugA report from Drupal Camp Toronto — CiviCRM, a "CiviCRM.ca" idea, site recipes and the Liquid Wiki module — and the first day of BarCamp TDot.
By Boris MannKris and I met the ComVu team, whose Pocketcaster app streams live video from a cellphone, about adding community and video blogging.
By Boris MannOn Friday I spent a couple hours at Raincity Studios chatting about social software and Web 2.0 tools with their design and development teams.
By Kris KrugKris Krug of Bryght led a Raincity lunch session on social software and web 2.0 tools like Bloglines, del.icio.us, Technorati and Upcoming.
By Megan ColeAfter NTC and Penguin Day in Seattle, I drove back into Canada to keynote at a cool new tech conference called Switch On put on by TechVillage.
By Kris KrugMy first SXSW: 10 days in Austin, Texas, armed with a video camera, a digital SLR and my Mac.
By Robert ScalesWell, internet spring break is officially over. SXSW was an awesome experience for Bryght.
By Kris KrugBeing in Vancouver has many advantages: our Web 2.0 community is better connected with Seattle and the Valley than with the rest of Canada.
By Roland TanglaoI've uploaded my photo video of the people of BarCamp Amsterdam 2005 to several video sharing services, most of which transcode the video.
By Roland TanglaoAfter nearly 2 months of planning, Blogs n Dogs, a master workshop series on blogs and social tools with the Banff New Media Institute, is happening.
By Robert ScalesNotes from a SOHO-SME panel with Andrea Slingsby (Flight Centre), Stephen Smith (Webnames) and Brian Scudamore (1-800-GOT-JUNK).
By Will PateNotes on the startups presented at the Web 2.0 Conference Launchpad, from Socialtext and Rollyo to Zimbra, Flock and PubSub.
By Will PateMark Cuban, Reed Hastings, Michael Powell and Evan Williams on online video, broadband policy, lawsuits and consumer generated media.
By Will PateDay 3 kicked off with Woody Woodman, Co-Founder and Head of Story at Ravenwood Entertainment and former Disney storyboard artist.
By Robert ScalesAnne Yeo and Bruce Pomeroy of Blast Radius on best practices in interaction design for rich internet applications.
By Will PateMarc Rettig of Fit Associates on design as fitting constraining forces, and translating research data into design outcomes.
By Will PateDay two of Creative Canux at the BNMI Accelerator Program opened with a customer field research presentation and workshop by Steve Portigal.
By Robert ScalesFive teams were given a design challenge: improve the user experience at gas stations and convenience stores for a made-up oil company.
By Robert ScalesA proposed SXSW panel spanning music and interactive tech: how musicians can use the Internet to build communities and distribute their work.
By Colin BrumelleHow to follow the Banff New Media Institute’s Interactive Screen 0.5 conference through its live audio feed.
By Robert ScalesFor the afternoon session of day 3 at the BNMI's interactive screen 0.5 we could choose between a serie of workshops on law, finance and production.
By Robert ScalesRobert Scoble and Dave Taylor at the Blog Business Summit on building blog traffic: links, keywords, titles, RSS and meeting other bloggers.
By Will PateJohn Cass, David Wharton and Buzz Bruggerman at the Blog Business Summit on online communities, blog marketing and listening to customers.
By Will PateI don't know what's up with me these days, but I have been having a hard time sleeping.
By Robert ScalesThis informative panel showcased the stories of each participant perhaps more than any other today.
By Mark YuasaYou wouldn't know that Dries is the founder and project lead of Drupal if you had hung out at the booth with him at OSCON.
By Roland TanglaoBoris Mann's report from OSCON 2005 and DrupalCon Portland: who came, local user groups, Drupal in education and hub-and-spoke sites.
By Boris MannJohn VanDyk heads to OSCON 2005; Boris Mann on why Drupal's publish and subscribe modules beat RSS for passing rich content between sites.
By Boris MannThe Event Blogging OSCON aggregator offers both an HTML page and a blended RSS feed combining Flickr, del.icio.us, PubSub, Technorati and Feedster.
By Roland TanglaoLive notes from Microsoft's Gnomedex 2005 session: RSS in Longhorn, the IE 7 demo, Simple List Extensions and the audience Q&A.
By Roland TanglaoRaincity Studios has launched a community-driven site called What's Web 2.0, where anyone can take part in defining the idea.
By Will PateTa-da List takes the To-Dos from Basecamp, keeps the usable 37Signals experience, and makes it free.
By Mark YuasaI had a great day at Massive 2005, Mark and I hanged out with the Bryght guys and helped with handing out information on their hosted CMS service.
By Robert ScalesAnother fine dinner and a little break watching The Family Guy. We reflected on what we believed the event would be like.
By Robert ScalesHaving delivered our completed* package via FTP at 15:58
By Robert ScalesWe are entering the third hour and we have a solid plan of action.
By Robert ScalesNorthern Voice was a resounding success, but with any conference you can't escape the limitations of time and space.
By Mark YuasaConferences such as Northern Voice always have more going on than what happens behind the podium.
By Mark YuasaStephen Downes' Northern Voice talk on Community Blogging was not at all what I expected: a cerebral workout on power laws, metadata and meaning.
By Mark YuasaTod Maffin of the CBC gave Northern Voice a quick overview of the hot subject of podcasting.
By Robert ScalesRobert Scoble, Chief Blogging Officer of Microsoft, gave the Northern Voice keynote: How I read 1000 Weblogs a Day.
By Mark YuasaThe unofficial top ten "bloggy" terms bandied about at the Northern Voice blogging conference, from metadata and tagging to RSS and podcasting.
By Mark YuasaRobert on Second Life in 2004: a virtual club with 20 staff, land, shops, and a plan to open Raincity's studio inside Linden Lab's 3D world.
By Robert ScalesI stumbled across this useful article hot off of attending a recent New Media BC seminar.
By Mark YuasaNot everybody has time for a forum; the site mom should run a blog that points to the best of the forums and summarizes what's happening.
By Roland TanglaoWhether you're an open source project, a business, or an individual, your community is key.
By Boris MannTell us about your project. We answer in English or French, and we travel anywhere in the MRC de Papineau.