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Vancouver’s Annex Pro would like to invite you to attend an informative evening with The Foundry on October 11th. This free event (please pre-register) will be held at the VFS Cafe, which is located at 390 West Hastings Street, near Homer Street. The  doors will open at 5:30p.m. for some networking and refreshments, which will be followed by The Foundry presentations.
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Learn360, an interactive media-on-demand service for the K-12 education market, has signed a new contract with Surrey School District 36, the largest and fastest growing district in BC. The contract was signed following a yearlong district pilot with Learn360. Concurrently, BC has embarked on a Province wide Pilot Project managed by the Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium (ERAC) in which districts across the Province are testing top streaming video systems, including Learn360, in their classrooms. The district has 125 schools and 74,000 students. Read the rest of this entry »

CDI College is pleased to announce the recent opening of two new campuses in Mississauga and Scarborough in response to the growing demand for trained professionals throughout the province. Ontario’s rapidly evolving business, technology and healthcare sectors have created increased demand for well-trained candidates that can hit the ground running. As one of Canada’s premiere career-training providers, CDI College carefully develops its market-driven programs to help students build the skills currently in demand by Canada’s leading employers. Read the rest of this entry »

TECHNOCompétences, in partnership with the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT) has unveiled its program for the Quebec component of National ICT Careers Week. The program runs throughout the month of October and will take two forms: classroom sessions and an interactive career show. Many dignitaries attended the launch, including the Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports, Line Beauchamp. Read the rest of this entry »

UBC Robson Square has spaces available in the following two Continuing Studies courses:

Mobile Content Design and Development Course

Mobile devices are changing the way we interact with information, news and entertainment. From downloading an events page to trading stock to ordering pizza, people are doing more on their mobiles than ever before. This course introduces you to the mobile user’s frame of mind, needs and limitations, and provides best practices in content publishing for mobile. Topics include basic concepts in usability for mobile smart phone and tablet websites, how to prioritize relevant content, and measure your success in meeting the needs and expectations of your users. Through an exploration of case studies, you learn how to make better content decisions to ensure that your website is truly “mobile-friendly”.

Course runs 4 Mondays, October 24-November 14th, 6:30-9:30pm, at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver

UBC Continuing Studies – Social Media Metrics Course

Measuring ROI is a critical skill for any marketing professional, yet the social media space provides new measurement challenges and questions. Knowing how to evaluate your social media efforts involves understanding social metrics and how to measure and evaluate your audience’s behaviour. In this course, you learn to define what a social media metric is, whether to assess qualitatively or quantitatively, and how to determine the best metrics for your business objectives. Understand your online demographics and audience profile, and find out how to measure efforts beyond publishing, through a lens of engagement, influence and market activation. Finally, learn to gather actionable insights from your results.

This course runs 4 Tuesdays, October 18-November 15, 2011 at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver.

UNIT4 Business Software’s parent company UNIT4, a provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC™), has announced the results of a survey undertaken by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC), which has found that many higher education institutions are not meeting business-change management requirements as a result of rigid enterprise software that is costing them between $100K and $1 million to make changes after the software is installed. Read the rest of this entry »

Merging Media 2011 has announced that Jennifer Newman Rutsky and Sean Elbe have each won a full pass to the October 27th & 28th conference after participating in a Twitter and Facebook promotion. Tickets for the conference, which will be taking place at The Woodwards Heritage Complex, are still available for purchase.

In other event news, the deadline for Pitch 360 and a chance to win this year’s $10,000 BC Film Development Award has been extended to October 5th in order to encourage more up and coming media producers and developers with innovative projects to participate.

Eight participants with innovative cross-media projects will be selected to battle it out a la ‘Dragon’s Den’ style for the grand prize at the Pitch 360 sessions on October 28th, hosted by new-dad-to-be Victor Lucas. The organizers are accepting early to late stage development projects for consideration, so get your submissions in today. If I had more confidence, a lot more knowledge about production, a team and a fully fleshed out plan, I’d enter the Pitch 360 program in a heartbeat. The BC Film Development Award would at least get the cross-media project idea I’ve been sitting on for a year off the ground.

On October 1st and 2nd Concordia University will be presenting Games Colloquium, part of Entretiens Jacques Cartier 2011. The first day of the colloquium is open to the public and will feature four panels with academic speakers and industry representatives engaging in focused discussion on a single game. The evening will feature a keynote presentation by David Cage, founder and CEO of the Paris-based studio Quantic Dream and lead designer for Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999), Fahrenheit (2005) and Heavy Rain (2010). This keynote is co-sponsored by the Montreal chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). Admission to Day one is free, however registration is required. Day Two is by invitation only. Read the rest of this entry »

The Langley Social Media Meetup Group and We Make Stuff Happen are hosting two events this week with guest speaker Kevin Knebl, dubbed “the most recommended man on LinkedIn. The first is a Meetup tonight at the Guildford Sheraton, which is located at 15269 104th Avenue in Surrey. Tickets are $39.20 (+HST) per person, and the doors open at 7:00 p.m. Your ticket price includes a copy of Kevin’s latest book, The Social Media Sales Revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

Serebra Learning Corporation has announced important enhancements to the Serebra Campus learning management system (LMS) that will make it easier for students to learn while engaging with each other, and with administrators.

“We constantly look to advance our platforms in ways that motivate students and that enrich their on-line learning environments,” said Serebra’s President and CEO, Taleeb Noormohamed. “I am particularly excited about our second round of new social learning tools. Students can find fun and more meaningful ways to track their educational progress.” Read the rest of this entry »