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Video Walk with Thwapr – Wed. Feb. 24th 4-6PM (+ beer)

Posted by Dave Olson

UPDATED LOCATION

We are now starting at the Gastown Blog HQ, 1 Water Street. NOT W2

Note: See you there at 4PM–if you can’t make it (perhaps because you are watching hockey), drop by the Alibi room after the game.
Duncan
416-909-4810

VideoWalk

Thwapr, a new mobile-to-mobile service has scheduled a TNMH Van2010 video walk on Wednesday 4-6PM, departing from W2 (subject to change as per W2).

Participants will be tweeting videos during and after the walk from their phones, interviewing citizens about their favourite Olympic athletes, and Vancouver as host city. There will be a prize for the best thwap.

Details

Date: Wednesday Feb 24th

Time 4PM-6PM

Location: Meet at Gastown Blog HQ, 1 Water Street.

RSVP via http://twtvite.com/dlkk6p

Contact Duncan Kennedy dkennedy {at} thwapr {dot} com

BEER BONUS

Participants will complete their journey at the Alibi Room (map) which has an amazing selection of local brews

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WGHthemovie.ca- Webisode #2 ‘True North Media House’ [video]

Posted by Jason Sanders

Note: Originally Posted by Robert Scales at Vancouver Access 2010 and Mike Browne at DOXA on January 29, 2010. Re-posted here on: February 1, 2010.

Robert Scales , founder and former CEO of Raincity Studios, introduces a webisode from Andrew Lavigne’s documentary, ‘With Glowing Hearts.” The film chronicles the Vancouver Winter Olympics’s effects on the homeless in the Downtown Eastside and it’s constantly evolving relationship with social media.

Andrew Lavigne, a filmaker has been working on a project called “With Glowing Hearts” a documentary film about the use of social media and the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver..

In this webisode, Kris, Dave and Rebecca speak about an ad-hoc project we have been tinkering with since November 2008, it’s called the True North Media House.

Mike Browne at DOXA summarized two previously released webisodes in the series and introduced TNMH’s clip with brief bios of Kris Krug and Dave Olson.

The website accompanying the film, WGHTheMovie.ca, as well as a blog,webisodes and more information about the film has brief interviews with some of the players.

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The latest webisode highlights the folks at True North Media House, featured are two local social media gurus, Vancouver photographer Kris Krug (@kk on twitter) and his counterpart story maker and social media activist Dave Olson (@uncleweed on twitter):