Third Tuesday Vancouver May 2008: Darren Barefoot
The Vancouver social media crowd can hardly wait to hear Darren Barefoot, one of Canada’s blog-fathers speak on May 20th on “Getting the Attention of the Web’s influencers“. This promises to be a really good Third Tuesday (all of the ones I have attended have been simply outstanding, and this one is co-organized as I understand by Monica Hamburg, Tanya Davis and Tod Maffin).
I have heard Darren speak before, at one of the NetTuesday events (which I live-blogged) and I like his work. I comment on his blog frequently and have chatted with him and exchanged emails a couple of times, although I wouldn’t say by any measure that I know him really well. But I do know his work and I really like his Web 2.0 savvy and knowledge. Plus, he has a really particular style of presenting his work. So, it should be interesting to learn more from one of the top bloggers. Besides, it does give me a great opportunity to meet in person other bloggers and readers of my own blog, and hang out with many great friends I’ve made through my blogging.
Miss604.com (Rebecca Bollwitt) will be providing excellent coverage of the event, AND she is also a media partner Rebecca will provide either live-blogging or recapping. Better yet, she will be giving prizes away!!! I haven’t yet decided whether I’ll live-blog or not, but I will also be most definitely posting a recap. Other local bloggers who are disseminating the news about Darren’s next speaking gig include Philip Jeffrey (aka tyfn, from Fade to Play fame), TechVibes and of course the Public Relations Meetup.com site.
When? Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 7:00 PM
Where? Century House Restaurant & Bar
432 Richards Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 3L5
604.633.2700
About 94 people have RSVP’d so I suggest that if you haven’t done your RSVP you do so REALLY SOON. I will be attending, and to make it easy for you to spot me, I’ll be wearing a name tag with my name and my blog’s address 
No, I haven’t made business cards yet. Not sure if I want to 
But for sure, if you read my blog and we haven’t met in person, by all means come and say “hi“. I don’t bite (unless asked to, of course, hehehehe).
Related posts:
- Third Tuesday on a Monday, Vancouver, David Jones, September 2008
- Third Tuesday Vancouver with Joe Solomon – The aftermath
- Blogger Relations – Cossette Convergence – VIDFEST 2008 – Barefoot, Trgovac and Bollwitt
- Third Tuesday May 2008 – Darren Barefoot’s talk
- Vancouver NetTuesday for May 2008 recap
I am also a media partner and have prizes to give away
Vancouver Metbloggers meet on Tue. at 7:30… I hate choices, let’s see who offers a bigger prize, given that miss604 is a member of both
Thanks for the write-up. I must go prepare slides, and such.
@ Rebecca – Post has been edited to reflect this. Sorry! You know it’s been a hell of a week!
@ Luc – I am not a member of Van MetBloggers, so…
@ Darren – Look forward to your talk!
[...] under: Third Tuesday, Vancouver, blogosphere, local events — Raul @ 12:50 am I said that I was possibly going to live-blog Darren Barefoot’s talk, but truth be told, I did not get wi-fi in the area of the restaurant [...]