If you want in on the deals and the testing, check out their Facebook testing ground or watch @splrg on twitter.  The next deals a doozie – FREE admission into Portobello West Market (at Rocky Mountaineer Station, 1755 Cottrell Street, just off Terminal Ave.)  this Sunday, July 26th to check out over 100 local artists and designers!  Always been meaning to check this out.

Hope to see some of you there! Just say Splrg sent you.

Emme  xoxo

I’ve been a little remiss in mentioning that a few of my favourite Digirati Darlings in town are at it again and busy presenting at Chicks Who Click this coming Saturday!  I am happy to  say though that it is not too late to register and come out to absorb, share ideas, and meet some other creatively inspired Van City gals.

Here are the details:

Friday, June 26, 2009

2:30-4:30
101 Track-”We are Living in a Digital World and I’m Just an Analog Girl”-Doyle Albee

5:00 p.m.
Chicks who Mix: Tweet-up at the Alibi Room

Saturday, June 27, 2009

8:00-8:30
Breakfast and Networking 8:30-9:30
Via Livecast from Seattle-Monica Guzman, from the Seattle Post Intelligencer

9:45-10:45
“Twitter: Tweeting, Following & Finding” -Monica Hamburg

11:00-12:00
“Breaking the Glass Ceiling-Women in Tech Start-ups”-Megan Cole, Victoria Revay, Alexandra Samuel, moderated by Boris Mann

12:15-1:15
Lunch
Carrie McCarthy-Marketing your image-online and off.

1:30-2:30
“Connecting Communities-Traditional Media and New Media”-Erica Hargreave

3:45-5:00
“Privacy vs Transparency-Where do you draw the line?”- Gillian Shaw, Rebecca Bolwitt, Erica Hargreave, Moderated by Doyle Albee 5:30-?
Chicks who Mix Cocktail Party and Networking

In case you haven’t heard of Ada Lovelace Day, it is a day in which we celebrate the sexy and savvy women of tech. One of the ways in which we do this is by celebrating these women on our blogs.

Why Ada Lovelace?  Well, because Augustus Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, was the ‘first programmer’, not ‘female programmer’, but programmer period.  And she acquired this title in the mid 1800s.  Pretty gosh darn amazing!  And she was doing this programming for a machine not even yet built – the analytical engine – Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer.

Today, the woman I want to celebrate is Megan Cole.  I want to celebrate Megan as she was one of my initial teachers of social media (yes, shes the one to blame) and she did this so seamlessly that I didn’t even realize that I was learning or was being taught anything, for that matter.  Thank you Megan for opening my eyes to this crazy, mixed-up world of interactivity!  Your a gifted teacher!

Some of our loyal readers will know that I had the pleasure of hearing one of the gals, who brought ‘Sex in the City‘ to life, speak in Banff last June. I know, lucky me, especially since it was the sexiest ‘Sex in the City’ gal and the one that has Canadian roots.  Yes, thats right, none other than Kim Cattrall, ‘Sex in the City’s’ Samantha. What I loved about Samantha’s character was that she was a woman that was okay with being single and walking a less conventional path.  She also exemplified sexiness, showing us that this was a quality not reserved for the young.  Well I have to say, hearing the real Kim Cattrall speak in person was no disappointment.  This woman was not only damn sexy, but smart, eloquent and witty to boot.  Really enjoyed listening to her speak.

So why am I mentioning this now?  Well, because Kim Cattrall is in town this week and you too have the opportunity to hear her speak, for FREE, I might add.  Here are the details:

The UBC Department of Theatre and Film Presents

A Conversation with Kim Cattrall

Frederic Wood Theatre

12 to 1 pm

Wednesday January 7, 2009

Free Admission, Everyone Welcome

Call 604 -822-2678 to reserve your FREE tickets (maximum 2 tickets per patron)

Enjoy!  And thanks to Kittyn for the tweet on this!

Emme

If you are using emerging technologies to tell a story and a third of of your key positions are held by women – submit!!!  It’s free and totally painless.  And if you win, it gives me yet another sexy and savvy storyteller to blog about.

Other ‘my mind celebrities’ that I have written about include: internet icons Megan Cole and Matt Mullenweg (Matt is after all a very cute nerd), silver screen celebrities Kim Cattrall and Meg Tilly (both of whom won their way into my heart after hearing them speak), and Planet Green’s own Timothy Kuryak (I did mention Timothy in my Banff TV Festival posts, didn’t I? If not, I should have as he totally gets it on so many levels and is cute to boot!!!). Some of these people are already deemed celebrities in the public eye and others are now just gaining the press that they deserve.  Congrats Megan on making the top 20!!!!

Well dear readers, I have two new Sexy in Van celebrities for you – Lori and Richard Yearwood of Once in a Lifetime Books.  And yes, these two new Van City additions are a couple, so fellas I know she is fine, but she’s taken, so back off. And yes ladies, he is not too shabby either, but once again – taken – enjoy him as a bit of eye candy only! Look, but don’t touch.  Enjoying the scenery is not one of the 10 deadly sins, is it?  I digress, so who are these two new Van Sexies and why do they warrant celebrity status in my mind?  Well Richard is a well known actor, director, producer and writer.  I personally would like to see Richard, as the next Denzel Washington, playing roles that portray men of African ancestry in a positive light and not stereotypic, racial roles that for whatever reason still keep coming out of Hollywood. Lori, although not as well known, is clearly the brains, and an awfully sexy set of brains at that.

So what brought these two new Van Sexies to my attention?  Their relationship books from their own Publishing House, Once in a Lifetime Books.  The name of these books?  52 weeks.  And yes, they are as titillating as they sound.  You can make them as 9 1/2 weeks as you like – only they last much longer. The books come in pairs, a his and hers version, and having read them both you really do want to be playing with one of each, as Richard has a bit of fun manipulating each genders weekly ‘task’ to heighten its pleasure. They even have a set for the Christian man and women, which I was told was not suited to me – but I thought I’d mention it in case (although I can’t imagine why) we have a tamer reader.

Richard claims in the introduction, that this book is for everyone – if you are in a new relationship, a relationship of a couple of years or a mature relationship.  This is the point at which I must protest – damn you Richard, it’s not for me, as I am currently between relationships.  I guess I’ll just have to find the right guy to try out these books with.

Now I don’t agree with Richard on all counts, as he suggests in the men’s book that this is their ticket to freedom, to be allowed to go out with the guys without question.  I do agree with him that this is healthy in a relationship and that your spouse should be able to go out with their friends on their own, I just don’t get why you wouldn’t trust your spouse or why they wouldn’t trust you or why you’d be in a relationship that lacks trust.  In my mind a healthy relationship is built on trust and even if you don’t trust their friends or wouldn’t want to date their friends, you should trust them (no matter whom they are with).  And personally, having spent some time at ‘the ballet‘ (for research, of course), I can tell you that a real woman, that you love, who is dancing for you is ten times sexier than a professional dancer. I think this is the point that Richard is getting to for those that don’t understand this already – trust is what makes for a healthy relationship and is what can make it develop into the wildest sexual fantasy of your dreams.

While you take your time humming and haaing over whether or not you have the guts to bring the book home and share it with your lover, I will tease you here intermittently with a few of my favorite phrases or ‘tasks’ in the books.  Figure if these books are making me sexually frustrated over the lack of a lover to play with them with,  I should at the very least taunt and frustrated a few of you too from their suggestions.

Frustatedly yours,

Emme

At sexyinvancity, we’ve always had our eyes on the oh so van sexy Miss Megan Cole of Canada Bombshell and Bridging Media, knowing how this girl could move and shake things up. We’ll after Monday in Banff, Miss Megan Cole even shocked us with her moves. All in one day this girl managed some one on one time with the who’s who on the television screen.

She even managed some face time with the sexiest of the Sex and the City gals, none other than Kim Cattrall. This interview confirmed what I had long suspected – Hollywood’s sexiest stars are BC gals – not all born, but certainly raised – and more specifically, Vancouver Island gals. Yes, Kim Cattrall, like Pamela Anderson and Nellie Frittata calls Vancouver Island home. And like our sexy in van gals, I was excited to discover that this BC gal hasn’t only perfected her strutt for the cameras, but is as savvy as she is sexy.

Watch on my lovelies …… (Video clips following this post – under the category of “The Gals”)

Spring fever aside, another nice little spring adventure just fell in my lap. I AM GOING TO BANFF!!!!! That’s right for The Banff World Television Festival!! Gotta phone call last night from an ex-lover and he invited me to town for the week thinking I’d get a kick out of being in town for the television fest, which of course I will, and an old flame is never a bad way to turn up the spring heat!

Have yet to figure out the whole plan, but word on the street has it that our friends – Kris Krug, Megan Cole and Erica Hargreave of Raincity Studios and Bridging Media will be in Banff covering both nextMEDIA and the Banff TV Fest of all things! So am definitely keeping my eye on those cats, as you know that they’re bound to be at all of the best parties!

Also thinking that I’ll sign up for Sunday’s Golf Tournament, as rumor has it that a lot of the big players tee off their festival this way and I have heard that it swings off the week on a nice, relaxing stroke. That aside, am definitely signing up for the Tuesday at the festival as none other then Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City will be there!!!!! And I have to meet a gal that so clearly reminds me of Miss Kittyn on the big screen! My ex-lover also tells me that the barbecue on Tuesday night is somewhat of a Banff legend that is making it’s first debut after several years on hiatus.

The other days will be all about the meetings that I can schedule. Gotta get on that (pretty much right NOW!). The focus – definitely a literary agent – it is time to figure out what I can really do with that book I am writing – and with the release of Sexy in the City on the big screen, there definitely isn’t a better time than right now. Am also feeling particularly voyeuristic these days, so who knows, maybe it is time for that acting agent too!

More from the Rockies my dear fans!

Kisses,

Emme

Rumor has it that Van City’s sexy and savvy tech women are at it again – this time Bridging Media! In essence, they are aiming to break down any barriers of communication between the broadcast world and the technology community, get them to speak the same language by exploring each others processes, and finally to play nicely in the sand box, building the future of media together. These women certainly have balls, and I for one, don’t think they can be accused of not knowing how to use them!

According to my sources, this ballsy scheme was set into action from a series of conversations between Megan Cole, Boris Mann and Kris Krug of Raincity Studios, Erica Hargreave of Ahimsa Media, and Brian Schecter of Puddleduck Productions in the fall. As these cats were talking, it became apparent that there was an obvious disconnect in the understanding of broadcast process verses that of the digital world and to truly embrace the future the two communities needed to be working together.

Megan Cole and Erica Hargreave have run with this initiating Van City’s first ever Bridging Media event on March 29th of this year. Boris Mann, Kris Krug, and Brian Schecter have been joined by Mark Greenspan on the gals advisory team. And as beautiful, sexy and smart women often do several other of Vancouver’s sexiest and savviest tech women have been drawn into the organizing mix, including Cinci Csere, Monique Trottier, Carol Sill and Monica Hamburg. Rumor even has it that the sultry Miss 604 will be live blogging the day.

From this gals perspective, the day is shaping up quite nicely with a panel of speakers that are none too sore on the eyes, including Ravi Singh of The Knowledge Network, Gary Marcuse of the CBC, Canadian Screenwriter Mark Leiren-Young and many of our lovely tech boys and sexy tech gals, who promise to be sharing secrets on industry, success, funds, and broadcast future! And you do know how I like secrets! It would also seem as though I am not the only one that feels that these women are up to something special. It appears that they have attracted in nextMEDIA, The Centre for Digital Media, The Knowledge Network, BC Film, OneDegree, Finale Editworks, and Now Public as sponsors. These companies know a good thing when they see it.

Oh and one final rumor from the event (probably shouldn’t divulge this one, as I’d personally like to win it) – I’ve heard they’re giving away a free pass to nextMEDIA to one lucky participant!

So shall we make it a date for March 29!?!

Emme