The examples of Twitter gaining new clients for local businesses, helping to spread the word on important civic issues, and local residents, business owners and organizations coming together for charity, demonstrates how powerful and pervasive this medium is becoming in Victoria.
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The constriction of local mainstream media in Victoria with the Times Colonist recently cutting Monday print editions, local TV stations in crisis, and CBC undertaking radical cuts: and the rise in local readership and participation in citizen journalism, is resulting in a paradigm shift in how news is gathered, who views what and when,...
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Glendale Gardens is one of Victoria BC's hidden treasures, and this weekend there is the opportunity to see the wonderfully varied demonstration gardens, and over 60 local artists who are taking part in the annual Art's in the Gardens fundraiser
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City communications is not keeping up at all with Web 2.0. Some people are happy with printed news, writing letters with maybe a phone call for questions. Most however, especially young potential voters who we all need to engage, discover and respond to news through different platforms. The City has a duty to offer...
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BC and Kelowna Wild Fires: Where there is a Twitter network there is immediate, user regulated, news. It is both hyper local, regional, linked and world attentive. The people providing the pictures, text news and videos are not trained journalists - they are, through collective interaction, providing a wealth of accurate information.
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