I have been remiss in blogging about Bridging Media, a welcome addition to the social media/community-gathering scene here in Vancouver.
Bridging Media is an event designed to open the channels of communication between the broadcast and digital media communities. We aim to increase an understanding of our respective industries and strengthen our approach to building multi-platform projects.
As I saw at VIDFest last year (Vancouver International Digital Festival), there is an amazing array of talent across multiple digital platforms, but we don't always speak the same language. Bridging Media hopes to change that.
Possibly my favourite thing about Bridging Media is the team of organizers - six exceptional women across all fields of digital media:
>> Erica Hargreave is a creative producer. She creates concepts, writes, researches, and consults on educational, science and multi-platform projects with a number of other production companies.
>> Megan Cole is a social media consultant, building web strategies and implementing technology and social media tools to assist companies in community outreach and helping clients produce online communities. She works from coast to coast, on projects big and small. Megan writes about community and technology at megancole.org
>> Cinci Csere is a marketing consultant who focuses her talent and energy on public relations, creating memorable events, and strategizing promotions for large and small organizations. You can find her at EAT Communications.
>> Monique Trottier runs Boxcar Marketing with a strong and deft hand. She is an internet strategist who has spearheaded the creation and management of major online marketing campaigns, including Harry Potter. Her leadership is widely recognized within the book publishing industry, where she created the first Canadian-publisher podcast and blog. She blogs about books and other curiosities at somisguided.com
>> Carol Sill has been involved in interactive digital media since the mid-90s. Her background includes international broadcast and non-theatric distribution, new media education and independent production. She currently assists new bloggers with editorial, research and multimedia support through Alphablogs.
>> Monica Hamburg is a freelance writer and social media evangelist/consultant in Vancouver, Canada. Her investigations and observations on social media, and its relation to business and connecting, form the basis of her blog, Me Like the Interweb. She is a frequent contributor to the popular digital marketing magazine One Degree, as well as a former actor and wanna-be class clown who now uses her dry humour for speaking engagements and in her blog Your Dose of Lunacy.
Kudos to Erica, Megan, Cinci, Monique, Carol and Monica! Bridging Media's first gathering is this Saturday, March 29. I believe you can still register. I'm delighted to have been asked to be a speaker and even more pleased that One Degree is a sponsor.