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Again, I 'm passing a long weekend in Dawn, where Michele Moure-Reeves and her Sunup Undertaking board are working on making Wv 's first full-time artist retreat Centre. Each clip I see, there Holds advancement. And each clip I larn something new about this settlement and its engrossing history as a resort community and a 1920 's artists ' community. Shortly it will again be a spot for artists to come and inhabit. For an overview of Dayspring and the Dawn Undertaking, delight read the article I indited for Wonderful West Virginia
before this twelvemonth.

This weekend, around a twelve authors are garnered here for a short-run retreat. During the daytime hrs, we are free to work on our ain authorship, boost in nearby Cathedral Province Woods, or simply unbend at Brookside Lodge, our `` headquarters '' for the retreat. Last nighttime, before and after a wondrous dinner, we listened to options of each other 's authorship. This night we will hold a existent delicacy: a reading by Mountain state 's poet laureate, Irene McKinney. And, if the odours coming from the kitchen and pervading the whole hostel are any indicant, the reading will be foregone by another fab repast.

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Before this month, I blogged about weaning myself from caffeine I 'm pleased to see that I 'm definitely in a different spot than I was at the terminal of last month.

I 've locomoted from 3-4 bottles of Diet Coke a day to one 16-oz bottle a day. My original progrgram was to swop out the regular Diet Coke with the caffeine-free salmagundi, but I detected I verily make n't wish how it savors. My breadbasket is not enduring as many rounds of acid reflux without all the soda. I 'm imbibing pots of H2O, much of it flavored with Pomegranate or Cranberry Apple Crystal-Light. The rending vexations are locomoted and I 'm kip better.

There are 2 sixpack of the 16 oz bottles sitting on the shelf and I 've found that yes, I can nurse one bottle for many hrs. When these are travelled, I 'll get a box of 12-oz tins. From there, downwardly to those small mini tins, the size of the ones they give you when you give blood. And so that Holds it. I 'm considering I should get there by the terminal of Sept.

It experiences good.

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I 'm really excited to be working on societal media publicity for Vancouver Digital Week

One of the ground I 'm jazzed about this series is because I loved last twelvemonth 's Convergence and Vidfest. I was particularly moved with James McCraken
's talking likewise as the one on Alternate Reality Games
from 42 Amusement. I love events that allow the soaking upwards of info and siphoning great nouses - and there was no deficit of that last twelvemonth. It looks like this yr will be fairly formidable too.

What is Vancouver Digital Hebdomad?

( Yes, I will be inquiring and replying my ain queries, btw - but like that arrogant bozo you seed last hebdomad. )

Vancouver Digital Week
, which runs from May 11 - 14, 2009 ( mostly at the Vancouver Exhibition and Convention Centre - West -i.e. the new one at 1055 Canada Spot ), is a series of digital media events for people regarded in, or interested inch, the undermentioned industries:

• games and digital amusement


• societal media


• synergistic designing, aliveness and VFX

It includes international concern matchmaking, large ikon conference Sessions, high-ranking seminars and shops, too as loadings of networking parties.

You can register for an event by attending the particular event site ( see below ).

What events are constituent of Vancouver Digital Hebdomad?

( Clink on the pic to see notes - including dates and websites )

What Holds especially cool about this event?

I 'm glad you inquired!

• DAVID PLOUFFE
  , Run Director, Obama for America will be the keynote speaker
  at Convergence.


• There Holds a 2-day Game Developers conference
  


• nextMEDIA Vancouver
  offers a progrgram which ties the digital creations of Music, Advertizement and Broadcast ( including Sessions that discourse self-promotion for artists through engineering, which I 'm particularly psyched about )


• New Media BC 's PopVox Awards
  which honor the best of BC 's Digital Media Industry. It is a people 's pick competition so the victors are found by the audience.
  • You can buy tickets for the jamboree on the New Media BC site
    
  
  
  • And you can balloting
    for your faves
    - but but until tomorrow ( April 30th )! - Attend the Popvox site
    to vote ( clink on a class to see the entries - and you can vote for equally many ).
  
  
  • There likewise 4 Individual Standout Awards
    that you can nominate people for ( though these victors will be determined by a jury.
  
  
  
  


• And much more
  

Where can I chance info Vancouver Digital Hebdomad?

• On Chirrup
  vandigweek
  and @ popvoxawards
  


• On Facebook
  - The Fan Page
  is here.


• On their sites
  Vancouver Digital Hebdomad has a blog
  and Popvox has a site
  

Update: Tickets!
Please ticket Vancouver Digital Hebdomad as # vdw09 on Chirrup, and vdw09 on Youtube, Flickr
etc. ( you can too add the undermentioned Re: Popvox # popvox09 on Chirrup and popvox09 on Youtube, Flickr etc. )

Thanks all!

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I came across a post
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that speaks about Googling as being passe! The article states that new hunting engines will run like WolframAlpha
Peradventure some friendly competition might be in order for Google
The world is that the convenience of hunting engines are modifying the fashion in which we seek for info. Google
hunting is the norm, not the elision. So what passes to all of that Google
hunt engine info? I would advise you give The Big Switch
a serious read. It is sobering!

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The rise in popularity of societal media simply raises e-mail. The two can work rightly together. Two splendid articles, Chris Crums, author for WebPro Intelligence, `` 10 Reasons Social Media isn't Replacing Email
`` and VerticalResponse CEO Janine Popick, `` 10 More Reasons Why Social Media Wont Replace Email
Chris ever holds great merchandising penetrations. Janine likewise renders some insightful resources and patterns what she prophesies for both e-mail merchandising and societal media. I advocate them both.

Here are their 20 grounds why societal media wont replace e-mail:

1. People still direct handwritten missives.


2. Nighly all sites on the web that need enrollment demand an e-mail reference.


3. E-mail apprizes you of updates from all societal webs.


4. We hold n't seen any grounds yet that Google Wave really will catch along on a big scale.


5. E-mail is cosmopolitan, and societal webs are not.


6. There are plentitude who hold no involvement in joining societal webs.


7. E-mail is still ameliorating.


8. Even societal webs themselves recognise the importance of e-mail.


9. More societal media utilisation intends more e-mail usage.


10. Equally far as merchandising is concerned, e-mail is making jollily goodly.


11. Chirrup and Facebook are grotesque merchandises and companies; but that Holds what they are, companies.


12. Your e-mail receivers are still attending utilize concern e-mail for concern aims.


13. You ca n't easily section your friends and followers to make targeted selling ( through societal media )


14. You ca n't say who snapped on a nexus with some societal media outlets.


15. That stated, you ca n't say who maked n't snap on the nexus so you can follow upward with them with a different message.


16. You can not individualize your Facebook updates.


17. You can not size your arts or apply more one in Facebook.


18. You ca n't track how many clinks you got on your links in Facebook.


19. You are trammelled to 140 characters in Chirrup.


20. You virtually need to hold separate societal media accounts for your concern and your personal life.

Extra resourceful articles that may be of involvement:

• Tsunami Warning: Google Wave, will it replace email?
  
  
  
  
  
  


• Email a Great Tool for Ad Agency New Business
  
  
  


• Email Newsletters a Key Tool for Ad Agency New Business
  
  
  


• How to generate traffic to and new business leads from your ad agency's blog
  
  
  


• Do you buy or build your ad agency's new business database?
  
  
  


• Ad Agencies Should Use a Database Service for New Business
  
  
  


• Ad Agencies: Don't Turn Your Back on Digital
  
  
  

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• Diary of a Crossword Fiend: Bay Area Crossword Puzzle Tournament recap by Eric Maddy
  
  
  
  Teaser Day got a reference in that report of this past hebdomads tourney in Alameda. Clara and I doed a speedy appearance after tiffin to advance our February 20-21 event.
  
  
  ( tickets: puzzleday
  
  
  

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