Faces of Social Media in Montreal

February 23, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

On Wednesday night, Marc Snyder used the occasion of Shel Israel‘s visit to Montreal as an opportunity for a bloggers dinner.

I made the trek to Montreal to see what is happening there. And I’ve got to say, one heck of a lot.

The fascinating conversation underlined for me that bilingual Montrealers have the best of all worlds. They reside in one of the great cities of North America where they can daily experience both the English and French cultural traditions. This provides a unique flavour and perspective to their conversations.

You may want to check out YULBlog, which aggregates a number of Montreal bloggers and Yulbiz, which brings together Montreal’s professional blogging community for periodic meetups.

Here’s are a set of pictures of the great bloggers and podcasters I met in Montreal. Click on each picture to link to their blogs and podcasts. Check them out.

Faces of Social Media in Toronto, part 4

February 22, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

And here, the last set of smiling faces from Third Tuesday in Toronto.

Faces of Social Media in Toronto, part 3

February 22, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

Following on Parts 1 and Parts 2, more bloggers and podcasters who call Toronto their home…

Faces of Social Media in Toronto, part 2

February 21, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

More bloggers and podcasters you might know…

Faces of Social Media in Toronto, part 1

February 21, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

The Toronto social media community turned out in force for Third Tuesday with Anthony Williams. So, I was able to grab snapshots of over two dozen of Toronto’s leading bloggers and podcasters.

In this post and the next several, I’ll post pictures with links to each person’s blog or podcast. You can also find them by searching the socialmediator or socialmediatortoronto tags on flickr.

Picture the Ottawa Social Mediators, part 3

February 20, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

The rest of the folks who agreed to pose for the Ottawa social media mug shots.

Picture the Ottawa Social Mediators, part 2

February 20, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

Yet more great Ottawa bloggers and podcasters.

Picture the Ottawa Social Mediators, part 1

February 20, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

They turned out in force to this week’s Third Monday to hear Paul Wells, to meet one another, and to have some great conversations. The Ottawa social mediators. Bloggers. Podcasters.

So, who are we, sitting here in the Great White North? Let’s put a face on the Ottawa social media community.

Get the picture of Canadian social media

February 18, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

I’m starting a new project this week: to capture pictures of the leading Canadian bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers.

I’ll be able to jump start this effort thanks to a heavy schedule of social media meetups in central Canada this week. The week will kick off with the Third Monday social media meetup in Ottawa featuring Maclean’s columnist and author Paul Wells. The action moves to Toronto the next day for the Third Tuesday gathering with Wikinomics co-author Anthony Williams. On Wednesday, Marc Snyder has organized a blogger dinner with Naked Conversations co-author Shel Israel. And on Saturday, it’s back to Toronto for Podcamp Toronto, which promises to bring together up to 200 podcasters and podcasting enthusiasts.

At each of these events, I’ll try to get as many people as possible to subject themselves to my amateur snapshot skills. I’ll save the pictures to my flickr account with the tags: socialmediator, socialmediatorOttawa, socialmediatorToronto, and socialmediatorMontreal.

So, by the end of the week I hope to have a snapshot profile of the Canadian social media scene.

I hope that you will join me in this project. If you plan to attend a social media meetup, why not capture pictures of the bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers that you meet and save and tag them on flickr.

If you add photos, please let me know by a trackback to this post or a comment.

Mark Evans will kick off the 2007 Third Tuesday social meetups

January 8, 2007 • Joseph Thornley • No Tags

We have a great speaker – Mark Evans – to kick off Third Tuesday’s 2007 spring season.

Mark writes highly respected blogs on telecom and technology and web 2.0 in Canada. He also co-hosts a popular weekly podcast, Talking Tech with Kevin Restivo.

Mark’s day gig is Vice President of Operations at b5media. Before joining b5media, he was a newspaper reporter – most recently at the National Post where he wrote about the Internet and the telecom sector.

Mark also has earned his stripes as a technology entrepreneur. In 2001, Mark co-founded Blanketware Corp., which developed natural language navigation technology for online services.

At Third Tuesday Mark will draw on his experience as a journalist, tech entrepreneur and social media network executive to give us a unique perspective on social media and its evolving relationship with mainstream media, public relations and communities of interest.

If you are interested in being part of the discussion with Mark, we’d love to have you join us. Sign up for Third Tuesday on meetup.com and RSVP that you plan to attend. You’ll meet a great group of people who share a passion for social media.