Rick Goosen from Make Good

We are excited to announce that Rick Goosen, CEO of MakeGood will be presenting at the next Ideas on Tap on January 22nd, 2009.

MakeGood allows companies to show the good things they are doing (also known as social responsibility). MakeGood was founded by Rick Goossen in 2007 and investors/strategic partners include Cambrian House, Domain 7, Rethink & Burnkit. The MakeGood badge (by Rethink) recently won a Lotus Award for best logo. 

Rick Goossen is the Director of Entrepreneurial Leadership, Transforming Business, a research
and development centre at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. He is also the founder
and Director of The Centre for Entrepreneurial Leaders and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership, School of Business, Trinity Western University. He teaches in the undergraduate and MBA programs.

He has written five books, edited five books and written over 150 articles for diverse publications
throughout the world, from leading academic journals to trade magazines and newspapers. His
most recent book, E-Preneur – Wall Street to Wiki – Succeeding as a Crowdpreneur in the New
Virtual Marketplace (Career Press, Spring 2008), has been translated into Chinese (Taiwan),
Chinese (PRC) and Portuguese (Brazil).

Ron Moravek Sitemasher

Sitemasher is a fully managed, hosted website solution that seamlessly integrates the website building environment, content management system (CMS), analytics, and search engine optimization (SEO) all within a single platform. Sitemasher was started in Vancouver 2006 by Phil Calvin and in mid 2007 was joined by former Electronic Arts VP and COO Ron Moravek.

Ron Moravek will be delivering a 1 minute elevator pitch at the January 22nd 2009 Ideas on Tap Event. Prior posts for Ron include, VP and General Manager of THQ Canada and Co-Founder and COO of Relic Entertainment. Early career titles include senior sales and business development roles with FedEx Canada and an IBM affiliate.

Blink Media Works

Blink Media Works and GetConnected have become a media sponsor of Ideas on Tap.

Blink Media Works Co-Founder, Mike Agerbo, participated in the elevator pitch competition at the October Ideas on Tap and wowed the crowd with his talk on video technology. You will likely recognize Mike and his partners AJ Vickery and Lindsay Smith, from GetConnected TV which airs on Citytv Vancouver and BNN. GetConnected also has a radio show that runs on the Corus Entertaiment Network across Canada and in Vancouver on Saturdays at 2pm on CKNW AM 980.

Ideas on Tap is now on twitter @IdeasonTap. Official event announcements will be made in the blog and will appear (hopefully) simultaneously on twitter. You can start following here: http://twitter.com/ideasontap

Think Tanked

Last night’s Ideas on Tap event rocked! Thank you to everybody who came down and supported. We estimate that 250 people showed up to watch Andre Charland from Nitobi win the speech competition chatting about phonegap. Rebecca Bollwitt (Miss604) came in a close 2nd talking about her company sixty4media.

Andre received a 16GB Ipod Touch and Rebecca some tickets to an upcoming Canucks Game + Madden 2009 for the XBOX 360. Mat Peake was the winner of the Madonna Concert tickets door prize. 

Check out the photos from the event on Facebook or Flickr.

The next event will be in January 2009, sign up to receive an email when we make the announcement.

For those of you who didn’t attend the event last night, you don’t have to miss out completely!

We were liveblogging from the floor Ideas on Tap, and I’ve reposted the liveblog transcript here, along with pictures so you can check out the action.

Stay tuned for our next event, and thanks to the sponsors and everyone who came out!






Liveblog transcript under the cut…
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Access the Ideas on Tap liveblog Here.

Liveblogging will begin with the event at 5pm pacific time.

We’ll be uploading pics and commentary live from the floor so if you can’t make it out, you can keep up with the events as they happen!  Be sure to tune in.

Check out the Ideas on Tap mention in Backbone, the technology and business magazine.

Backbone magazine has become one of the top four broad-based business magazines in Canada and is emerging as a powerful new brand in Canada’s business media.

Backbone Magazine’s hardcopy edition is distributed six times a year within The Globe and Mail to business and metropolitan subscribers within select city centres. Backbone is also distributed through corporate alliances, technology industry associations, universities, select retailers, subscribers, etc.

Andre Charland is the co-founder and CEO at Nitobi Inc. He’s been at the forefront of Web 2.0 software development for almost a decade and is an expert on the next generation web. Andre is an advocate for usability and user experience and speaks regularly about how to keep users engaged and active on websites or web-based application. Most recently Andre presented on the Adobe AIR Tour throughout Europe. He’s also been a speaker at the Voices That Matter web design conference, Adobe MAX, JavaOne and AjaxWorld. Andre is the co-author of “Enterprise Ajax”, published by Prentice Hall last summer and is the lead blogger for O’Reilly’s InsideRIA.com. He maintains his own blog at http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre.

Andre Charland will be at Ideas on Tap October 16th presenting his 60 second idea.

Check back here on October 16th for the Ideas On Tap Liveblog.

We’ll be liveblogging the events as they happen, on location!

Check here on Oct 16th for the Liveblog address.