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Easy access to private blog

Antoine — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:55:38 +0000

Just a reminder that you can read uncensored rants and view personal pictures on my private blog. To make it simple, I’ve added a “PRIVATE” button to the top menu bar on this website in between “CONTACT” and “RSS”. If you know me, just email or facebook me and ask for the password. It’s simple – if I even vaguely know who you are, then you’re in. Don’t worry, I’m not screening out people I don’t like, lol! Otherwise, I will still cross-post geeky stuff right here on wordbit. Thanks for reading amigos.

Up close and personal

Antoine — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:19:44 +0000

Another year is upon us and wordbit is in its 5th year! But with sporadic posts, this site has slowly slipped into oblivion. Well, I always have good intentions, but I have decided to create another personal blog, while keeping wordbit as the “public face” of my professional life. So, my personal blog is at antoineg.info, but you’ll need to ask me for the password to access it. If I know you, you’re in! I’ve just gotten tired of fighting off the spammers and dealing with privacy issues and the dominance of Facebook as well. But I’m not abandoning this site by any means. I’ll have some more articles to tell you about soon.

Northern Voice a wrap

Antoine — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:11:57 +0000

I’m glad I was able to attend Northern Voice this year – it was informative and inspiring for the most part. All the clicking laptops around me were a bit daunting, but gave me something to aspire to.

The morning kicked off with the keynote address by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (the excellent blogging platform on which this website is based). Listen to the audio here.

I then listened to a talk by the CEO of Broadband Mechanics, Marc Canter on bringing social to software. Next was an inspirational diatribe on the state of our stats-obsessed blogging world by Dave Olson.

In the afternoon, Alan Levine gave us 50 web 2.0 ways to tell a story (his was a tearjerker about a dog). Vancouver photographer Kris Krug then faced off against his mentor Alex Waterhouse-Hayward on the best medium for photography – hard copy or digital?

Finally, Rob Cottingham gave a talk called Blogger 911, about using blogs for crisis communications, something we’re doing a lot of in PR class. He also draws some great cartoons about social media – check them out on his page.

Overall it was worth going and I’ll be going next year – hopefully with a laptop this time!

Come to Northern Voice 2008

Antoine — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:56:49 +0000

Whether you’re a hardcore blogger or just thinking of starting one up, you can’t miss Northern Voice, Vancouver’s 4th blogging and social media conference. This event gets bigger and more popular every year, but is still “cheap, friendly and open to all.” It’s only $40 for one day ($60 for both).

On a similar note, the second DocTrain West is coming to Vancouver in May and the topic is – gosh, what a shocker – Web 2.0 and it’s impact on communication. If you have $999 to spare, or maybe a generous employer, then do attend – it’s the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of conferences for technical communicators.