Mike Agerbo is today’s digital living expert.  Heard nationally on Corus Radio’s GetConnected every week, and seen by thousands of television viewers with his regular Tech Segment appearances on Global, Citytv and CTV, Mike’s casual style makes technology fun and simple.   Not only is Mike a veteran broadcast TV and radio personality, he is also an award winning television producer and creator.   He has produced hundreds of hours of television programming for Global TV, City TV, Prime, The Men’s Channel, The Biography Channel, Clear Channel, Tech TV and YTV.   He has extensive experience in creating innovative relationships between television broadcasters, and the new digital world - with internet service providers and portals, including Yahoo, Rogers, Shaw, Telus, MSN, Bell Sympatico and many others. 

In addition, Mike is an accomplished speaker, speaking regularly to industry associations, government agencies, corporations and families on everything from taking advantage of technology in the workplace to internet safety.  

Catch Mike Agerbo at Ideas on Tap - coming up on October 16th.

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Deborah Collins from Soya Marketing

Deborah Collins from Soya Marketing is going to present at the October 16th Ideas on Tap.

Deborah Collins is a co-founder of Soya Marketing, Canada’s first Web PR agency. She helps companies build their brands online, through Google Storytelling and Social Media Marketing. Her clients include Opus Hotel Group, Park Royal Shopping Centre and Blast Radius. She’s been featured in Vancouver Magazine for her business ethics.

Deborah has been responsible for some marketing ‘firsts’ in Canada, including Canada’s first restaurant launched via social media (Koko Restaurant & Bar for Opus Hotels) and the nation’s first social media back-to-school campaign (for Park Royal).

Deborah’s marketing background includes more than a decade at some of Canada’s leading agencies including National PR, RMG Connect, Inventa, McMillan and Silver Lining. She’s worked on big-name accounts such as Molson, Telus, Vancouver General Hospital and VanCity.

Veratta is excited to jump on board as a sponsor for Ideas on Tap. “Nice work 6S Marketing. It’s great to see Ideas on Tap back in full swing! Some great, and at the least entertaining, web ideas sprang from creative minds on the patio at Yaletown Brew Pub in the dotcom years.”, says Tim Major President of Veratta. “Bringing this tech watering hole back to life is super for the Vancouver Internet Community”.

DigitalPractices, a digital interactive media firm based in Victoria, has also joined a sponsor. They are a web development company offering Sitemasher and OpenOffice.org  development as well as many other services.

The Fraser Valley’s largest web company, Domain7 Solutions, has joined as an event sponsor as well. Domain7 was recently recognized as one of BC’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies published by Business in Vancouver, ranking number #66.

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Linda Bustos Elastic Path Software

As the Emerging Media Analyst, eCommerce consultant and chief blogger at Elastic Path Software, Linda’s expertise spans all aspects of Internet marketing, including SEO, PPC, email marketing, social media, conversion optimization and web usability. She shares her knowledge daily on the Get Elastic eCommerce Blog, has been quoted by Fortune Small Business Magazine, eCommerce Guide and has contributed articles to ProBlogger, Marketing Pilgrim, Site Pro News and Duct Tape Marketing.

Get Elastic was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of 15 entrepreneur blogs worth reading.

A member of Canadian Women in Communications, Linda has served as faculty for the Banff New Media Institute’s Career Accelerator Program. This year, Linda was named as one of Vancouver’s Tech Women to Watch in 2008. She is also the winner of Marketing Pilgrim’s 3rd Annual SEM Scholarship for her entry 8 Stupid Things Webmasters Do to Mess Up Their Analytics.

Google is celebrating its 10th birthday this year and is looking back on a decade of technological advances and its direct impact on the way information is distributed, read, understood and found around the world.

The ability to change the world by doing good is something Google takes seriously, literally. “Project 10 to the 100th” is Google’s new brainchild calling for ideas to “Change the World by helping as many people as possible”.  To make sure this happens, Google has committed $10 Million to implement the winning idea.

Project 10 to the 100th kicks off immediately and all idea submissions must be entered by October 20th. Google will pick 100 ideas from the submissions and post them as semi-finalist for voting to take place on January 27th, 2009. 
Once five finalists have been selected for funding, an advisory board will begin the process of identifying the organization(s) and proposals that are in the best position to help implement the selected ideas.

Submissions must fall into one of the set guidelines of the Project and must define how many people the idea would help, how urgent is the need (of the idea), can the idea be implemented within a year or two, and how long will the impact from the implemented idea last.

For more information, visit the official Project 10 to the 100th site.

Techvibes Media Inc. is pleased to announce our sponsorship of Ideas on Tap - a casual business networking event for Tech professionals in Vancouver.  Industry veterans likely recall Ideas On Tap from back in 1999 when IDEApark ran it at the Yaletown Brew Pub.  During the Dot-com bubble, Ideas On Tap was the place to network with the high-fliers of the Tech community and pitch your new ideas. The must-attend event attracted huge crowds to witness elevator pitches where contestants had 60 seconds to win votes from the standing-room only crowd  from atop a milk crate.

As a hyper-local technology blog that covers 8 cities across Canada and Seattle and Portland in the Pacific Northwest, it’s great to see successful initiatives like Ideas On Tap reborn in the local marketplace.  

Techvibes’ office overlooks the Yaletown Brew Pub, so our coverage of the event will be as hyper-local as it can get. This time around, a new wave of tech professionals - social media marketers and bloggers – will join other fans of the tech community to make this event a success.

Congrats to the folks at 6S Marketing for re-inventing Ideas On Tap and bringing it back to Yaletown - it will be great way for people to connect and share ideas over a beer every 3^rd Thursday of the month.

In June 1999 I joined a Yaletown Web design company called Stratford Internet Technologies as the Webmaster for DiscoverVancouver.com. I had been working in the hotel industry for 3 years and was looking to make a change into the emerging world of the Internet. I was living in my parents basement and spending far too much time in front of the computer. With my social life in need of an upgrade, and few friends in the industry, I started attending every high-tech related networking event I could find. Back then, a Yaletown incubator called ideaPARK, launched an event called Ideas on Tap and for a year, until the dot-com crash, it was the most fun networking event around. The event was informal and simple and was hosted at the Yaletown Brewing Company. 8 and a bit years years later, 6S Marketing is bringing it back and trying to retain its grass roots feel.