On Monday the Georgia Straight posted an article on how Vancouver’s book scene is being reshaped by online communities. The article looks at how the web is changing the publishing industry and readers’ relationship to books. Vancouver, in particular, is...
Friday, October 8 was Vancouver’s 3rd Interesting event. Interesting was founded in London, UK by Russell Davies and now has chapters around the world. Friend and former Vancouverite Brett Macfarlane founded the Vancouver chapter and kicked off the event this...
October 1, 2010, was the second BookCamp Vancouver and it was a great success! Thank you to Crissy Campbell, our behind-the-scenes project manager extraordinaire, and the members of the organizing committee: John Maxwell, Sean Cranbury and Cynara Geissler. A big...
The International Digital Media Arts Association Conference 2010 (iDMAa 2010) is happening November 4 - 6 at Emily Carr University. This year’s conference will focus on the subject of The Digital Narrative: Pushing scholarship, creativity and imagination....
The second BookCamp Vancouver is this Friday, October 1. BookCamp is a conference that brings together 250 members from the technology and publishing industries to talk about digital aspects of book publishing and how online media is changing the game. The early days...
Starting Friday, I’m teaching at Simon Fraser University. PUB 355-4 explores online promotion and marketing in the creative economy with a focus on publishers. Students will learn about the formulation and analysis of marketing strategy, approaches to...
You can ignore this message. I’m testing the schedule post function because there seems to be a conflict with the server time and the localization settings. Dreary, I know. Skip down and enjoy the AT&T post instead.
Today we are testing the localization settings for our website and server. There appears to be a disconnect between when we think posts are going to go live and when they actually go live. Rather annoying. So now we’re going to test our theories. Some days you...
Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting is a Boxcar Marketing officemate with an iPad. We covet the iPad. Todd kindly let us play with it. Then he polished our mucky finger prints off the screen. Things I like about Apple’s iPad: Amazingly crisp screen I already know...
Boxcar Marketing has been busy in the trenches lately as we worked to re-launch the Namaste Publishing website. Namaste Publishing is a small, financially successful Canadian publishing house with a worldwide presence. Known as the publisher for leading authors like...