Northern Voice 2008

Awesome work on this, Duane. Maybe we can get posters made? Leave a comment if you're interested.

We're not making any commitments at this point, but a couple of people asked if we have an email list. We do now!

If you registered for and attended this year's conference, don't worry. We'll definitely email you if and when we announce Northern Voice 2009.

However, if you missed out this year, if you're just randomly visiting the site or if you don't want to subscribe to our RSS feed, you can sign up to get notified about future events.

Don't worry, we won't sell your address to anyone or do anything else nefarious--we hate spam too. Just enter your name and email address below:

Thanks to all the sponsors, organizers, volunteers, and participants who made it to Northern Voice this year. A blast as always, and something that will keep our minds whirling with new ideas and new faces.

We've got a post mortem wiki page up that we started gathering ideas on what worked and what didn't. Thanks to Tod Maffin for the live wiki help (and rockin' some tunes throughout the conference). Please do leave us feedback -- comments, blog posts tagged as Northern Voice, and/or direct edits to the wiki page are all appreciated.

Safe travels!

P.S. Ideally we'll do an evening session on Net Neutrality sometime next week. We'll post about it here and on Upcoming.

The organizers would like to thank you, the participants, for another great conference. Probably the best one ever, in fact. Yes, definitely the best one ever.

We will be sending out a questionaire to you by email where you can give us feedback about what was good, great or otherwise.

In the mean time, the wiki is a good place to learn about the sessions you missed, and add information about the sessions you attended. And check out the Flickr photos, linked to from the sidebar over to the left.

See you next year!

Miss604 and Boris Good news! We've already run through our supply of lanyards.

(OK, that's not GOOD news, but it's all about attitude here at Northern Voice.)

You can help our lanyard shortage by:

* not losing your lanyard

* bringing your lanyard with you again tomorrow, or bringing your own if youhappen to have your own personalized one like I do

* if you're planning not to come back tomorrow, drop off your lanyard at the registration desk on the way out, don't just throw it away.

Thanks!

It's time to announce the Ask the Expert booth that will be set up on Saturday. (Pardon the wiki dust, we're still scheduling the exact time slots)

We've got a stellar line up of folks both attending the conference in person and dialing in via video conference to answer any questions the attendees may have. We'll be linking questions off the booth page, so all the attendees and watchers from afar can help flesh out answers to any questions people may have.

Whether it's a technical question like "is this CMS right for me?" or something like "Do you have any tips on helping my market my small business?", come by the booth and ask our experts.

Thanks to Voxant for sponsoring this and helping support the Northern Voice conference. They also want to buy you a drink on Friday, so check that link on Upcoming for details.

For the past 2 semesters I've been teaching at VFS in the Entertainment Business Management faculty. I teach 'Internet Technologies 101' and 'Internet Technologies 202'.

As a part of our final project for 'Internet Technologies 202' each of the students has been creating and maintaining their own Wordpress.com blog. With Matt coming into town, and so many awesome social media types on hand for Nothern Voice I decided what better way to toss them all into the deep end, than requiring that they all come to Northern Voice to pass my class. *evil grin*

They're a great bunch of film critics, film producers, film and tv agents, network executives, video game producers, tour managers, talent agents, event managers and they've got a bunch of awesome blogs. Check them out, say hi and take their picture at Northern Voice, and /pwease/ send them some linky love. :)

New to Vancouver or just not into figuring out the bus system? And need to get to the NV08 Opening Party? Then join me at Blenz at 508 West Hastings (at Richards, in front of SFU Harbour Centre).

• WHEN: Thursday Feb 21, 2008 at 5:15p.m.
• WHERE: Blenz Coffee at 508 West Hastings (map, pictures)
• BRING: $2.50 Cash fare (and another $2.50 to get back)
• BUS ROUTES: One of Number 10, 20, etc. (many routes lead to the Waldorf)
• PRE-REQUISITES - On NV08 Opening Party list
• LOST? call or text me, Roland Tanglao (photos of me), cellphone +1 604 729 7924

Many of us enjoyed reading the aggregated feeds from the participants of Northern Voice 2007. So with Northern Voice 2008 coming up soon I asked some people in a local chat if there was going to be a similar group feed of the 2008 participants so we can easily check out the posts of the bloggers at the conference before, during and after the conference.

Jordan Behan Director of Community Relations of Strutta has generously offered to do this on Jaiku.

There will be one blog per attendee (if you want to participate), so if you're an attendee of Northern Voice or Moosecamp 2008 and want more people to read your blog, please send an email to Jordan with the name and feed of your blog and he'll add you to the Northern Voice Feed.

Just blogs, no twitters, jaikus, or flickr feeds or we'll all drown from infoglut.

If you have more than one blog you get to pick which one.

Here's the Northern Voice 2008 Channel website and here's the RSS feed. Enjoy.

...unless you are attending Northern Voice.

Perhaps the single most emphatic piece of feedback we got from last year's event at the Forestry Sciences Centre was that it was too difficult to hike ten minutes or more to reach the best food options. This forced march was especially inconvenient as we were hit with freakish rainstorms, a wintertime event virtually unheard of in Vancouver.

You complained. We listened. Boldly springing into action, we called a caterer. We will provide a midday meal that we hope will be tasty and that will accomodate a wide range of tastes:

Friday: The DIY Sandwich Bar (Salads, assorted rolls, veggie fixins, deli meats, three cheeses, Nanaimo bars, brownies & dessert squares.)

Saturday: Mexican Buffet (bean dip with tortilla chips, corn & black bean salad, flour tortillas, chicken, veggies, monterey jack and cheddar cheeses, sour cream, salsa and guacamole, chocolate brownies.)

If our menu does not please you, you are welcome to favour one of UBC's many other dining options.

Special thanks to our sponsors, who have really stepped up this year, allowing us to serve meals with a minimal increase in attendee fees.

**[The Creative Commons licensed image from hmmlargeart may or may not resemble Saturday's Mexican buffet.]