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Bright ideas at Fresh Media Vancouver

Written by Smartt Team on October 27, 2009

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend a fantastic event hosted by Fresh Media at Vancouver’s W2 Community Media Arts Centre. The day was jam-packed with workshops, panel discussions, and live art installations that blended seamlessly together to form an all-day, new media free-for-all. Speakers included open policy expert David Eaves, The Vancouver Sun’s Gillian Shaw,  Ion Magazine’s Trevor Risk, and Now In Public’s Sudha Krishna, just to name a few.

As you might expect from an event with a focus on new media, the conference was extremely well documented on Twitter. Hundreds of posts from attendees sporting the #freshmedia and #freshmediame hashtags went up during the event and in the days following.

Among the day’s many highlights was local writer/producer Dave Olson’s interactive workshop on podcasting. Dave had the entire audience participate in the creation of an on the-spot podcast, where we recited Twitter-sized biographies of inspirational artists, musicians and historical figures. The final result is a funk-backed eight minutes of pure audience participation, with just the right amount of reverb.

Thanks again to everyone at Fresh Media for orchestrating this great event, and to all the speakers who took the time to share their knowledge.

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