Say Yeah in San Francisco!
Lee and Matt are in San Francisco for a few days with our colleague Mark Dowds and we’re looking to get a whole whack of Canadians together along with some other San Francisco friends.
Canadians and anyone with a fetish for Canadians and/or good design are all welcome for a casual get together, 5:30 to 8, at the Thirsty Bear.
Whither the TO Events Calendar.
We shuttered the TO Events Calendar late last year because we:
1. Were having trouble managing it, because;
2. We hadn’t improved the technology to help make our lives easier as curators and your lives easier as contributors.
Our plan for the past year was to integrate Plancast via their API as they were (are?) doing a pretty good job of sucking in events from most of our event sources (Facebook, Meetup, Eventbrite, etc), leaving us with some leg work to grab events from proprietary software calendars from the likes of Rotman, the Toronto Board of Trade, etc.
Alas, word this week is that Plancast may be leaning towards extinction for many of the reasons we never attempted to commercialize our calendar software.
See you next week at Mesh!
You know, we’d love to talk about some of the stuff we’re working on, we’ve just been so swamped with work we haven’t had much chance to write.
So, track us down at the perennial Mesh conference next week, May 25 and 26, and ask us what’s up (Matt, Danielle and I will all be there!). We’re happy to share some project highlights with you and even more excited to hear what’s going on with all the other great Mesh attendees.
In the meantime, we have updated our Clients page to highlight some of our ongoing Mobile, Web, and other work. Take a look and see you at Mesh!
And hey, if you can’t make it to the conference, the May 24 pre-party is open to all. It begins at 6:00p at The Drake.
Hey there, 2011!
2011 is off to a heckuva start!
We’ve got work in the pipeline for Web Foundation, NuLayer, Jet Cooper, blogTO, and a whole host of other great companies and people. Everything from desktop to Web to mobile apps.
We’re pretty well settled in our new Richmond and Spadina office space.
And we just received word that our (Jon Lax and I) Abolish the Hourly, How Value Pricing Wins Clients SXSW talk has been accepted, so we’ll be sharing some success stories with the world come March.
Events for the week of December 13 to December 19.
With all the holiday season events on the go, let’s take the time out to focus on one that affects us all locally, HoHoTO. Now in its third year, HoHoTO has been focused on raising money for Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank, an organization for which I’ve volunteered in the past and one that Say Yeah has been supporting with each of our HoHoTO sponsorships over the past few years. And each year the annual event at the Mod Club has sold out with increasingly greater dollars and donations making their way directly to the Daily Bread Food Bank.
With the event coming up this Thursday evening I see there are still tickets remaining and would like to encourage everyone to show their support, whether they can attend or not (either way, you’re donating to a great cause).
Events for the week of November 29 to December 5.
As we swing into December’s holiday season, the list of things to do is going to grow exponentially. From workday seminars to afternoon holiday get together’s, and evening soirées, including our favourite event of the season, HoHoTO. We’ll focus on highlighting a few of these events throughout the month that are worth juggling your schedule around.
Events for the week of November 22 to 28.
This week is super busy as we approach the holiday season. Apart from the whack of daytime work events to explore on the TO Events Calendar, fundraising and evening socials dominate the calendar this week.
The week began Monday with the #pepsitweetup, celebrating all the great Canadian initiatives Pepsi is supporting in 2010. There was a chance at the event to show what you care about. And whether you have an environmental, cultural, health, educational or arts project you’d like to tackle in 2011, be sure to submit your idea for funding to the Pepsi Refresh Project.
This week also prevents us with the Movember Gala Thursday evening. You’ll be able to catch me there in support of Prostate Cancer Canada. Even if you can’t make it, you can still donate to our fundraising team here. With over $1500 raised, we’re pretty happy with this year’s efforts and I’ve noticed a real jump in awareness from last year.
Also, Matt will be at tonight’s Sproutup, so be sure to say hi.
And feel free to join me at People Downtown’s Tequila Monthly this Friday evening as we celebrate world electronic music and the relaunch of indianelectronica.com.
Lots more on the go
As always, you can find all the great weekly events on Yeah Social’s TO Events Calendar. And feel free to add your choice events to the TO Events Calendar or reach out to us with some suggestions so we can keep everyone up to date.
Events for the week of November 15 to 21.
Two big business events this week which will be of interest to entrepreneurs. Happening now is The Art of Management, with Mesh Marketing taking place this Wednesday.
On the lighter sider, tonight presents Tweetgasm v1.5: Movember Edition and coming up Friday: Likemind Toronto.
For devs: Rypple and Points.com are hosting a Thursday evening discussion on Google’s Web Toolkit.
Lots more on the go
As always, you can find all the great weekly events on Yeah Social’s TO Events Calendar. And feel free to add your choice events to the TO Events Calendar or reach out to us with some suggestions so we can keep everyone up to date.
