A recent Choose Green campaign at Vancity included a series of videos with helpful tips about living a more sustainable lifestyle.
I just put all six videos on YouTube. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Make a plan for BarCampBankBC.
Yesterday, Gene Blishen and I booked the space for BarCampBankBC. I’m very excited that we got such a great space at BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology).
BarCampBankBC will take place in Vancouver all day on Saturday, September 20th and a half day on Sunday the 21st. You can sign up here.
What is BarCampBankBC?
What if we changed banking and finance? The aim of BarCampBank is to foster innovations and the creation of new business models in the world of banking and finance.
It’s going to be an amazing time, and may just:
- change the way you do your job
- introduce you to new concepts and innovations
- connect you to some amazing people
- inspire you
We’ve already got 16 people coming from some great FIs and vendors, including HSBC, Industrial Credit Union, Westminster Savings Credit Union, Everything CU, Credit Union Central of BC, Creative Brand Communications, Citizens Bank of Canada, Ripple Project, Open Money, Mount Lehman Credit Union, Community Savings Credit Union, Vancity and Currency Marketing. And I just noticed Denise Wymore is planning on coming in for it.
I have no doubt that by the time September 20th and 21st arrive many more FIs and vendors will have signed up.
BCIT’s downtown campus is extremely well located, right in downtown Vancouver. If you’re coming in from out of town, you can walk there from any of Vancouver’s downtown hotels. It’s also very close to a SkyTrain station, so it’s easy to get to from almost anywhere.
All that for about $35 Canadian. So go ahead, add your name to the wiki and come on down.
See you there!
UPDATE (May 29): Thanks to Boris for adding this event to Upcoming.org!
From Mass To Grass is where it’s at.
Let me start this post by stating that I am, in fact, a reasonably proud Canadian. So now I must confess something to you. I’ve never been to Toronto. Ever. Well, other than the airport a few times. Insane, I know.
So I’m very excited to take my first trip there to speak at the Canadian Marketing Association’s extraordinary From Mass To Grass Word of Mouth Marketing conference.
I’m on a not-for-profit panel called Building Buzz for Good, along with Deborah Kaplan, the Executive Director of Zerofootprint, a renewable energy company. The panel is being moderated by Kate Trgovac a very well known and well respected blogger.
It is being described as so:
Not-for-profits have been organizing and activating grassroots influencers since their first inception. Learn from some of Canada’s top and most innovative non-profit organizations and initiatives on how they build community, activate influencers and build support for their causes. If you are a non-profit or CSR-focused organization, this is a must attend segment.
Check out this funny video promoting the event (hat tip to Michael Seaton for the video):