Rick Segal (The Post Money Value) is making his way east to do a series of roundtables for startup entrepreneurs to meet an experienced VC and ask questions.  Raising capital is an important part of a startup, so this would be a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to take advantage of. The seats are limited, so I would recommend signing up asap.

April 14th – Halifax  (8a – 10:30a) Sign up here

April 14th – Moncton ( 5p – 7p) Sign up here

April 15th – St. John’s (5p – 7p) Sign up here

Sorry for the hiatus lately. A slew of illness, work and life threw a wrench in things for a bit. But I’ve spent the last few weeks getting caught up on what’s going on in the Social Media space and now it’s time to get back to blogging.

It’s time for our next Third Tuesday Social Media Meetup. This time it’s going to be really big and Dan Martell from Spheric is leading the charge drumming up enthusiasm from every corner of the web. For the first time I’ll be doing a demo of WalkingSpree and I’m looking forward to showing an example of a commercial niche private social networking site. We have a great group of presenters and this will be a group of people with the cutting edge information on what is happening on the online media space. You definitely need to be there.

ONLINE MARKETING EVENTLet’s get social! Listen to Atlantic Canada’s top online companies share their passion and experience around online social media.

Derek Hatchard founder of Moncton based ChurchRadius.com and podcaster at Devcasting, blogged today that he is giving away citizenville.com. Leave a comment on his blog saying why you want it and he may give it to you.

I was thrilled when the 1st AIM conference was held in NS last year. Although I found out about it too late to attend.  The 2nd Atlantic Internet Marketing Conference will be held in Moncton, May 4-6th 2008. I will definitely be attending.

From their website;

Who should attend AIM 2008?
From management, to the team that makes your website work, AIM 2008 will open your eyes to what you can and should be doing online - and how to get it done right. AIM is for anyone who needs to learn how to succeed online including:

• Marketing Executives
• Marketing Managers
• Media Buyers
• Tourism & Travel Operators
• Designers & Programmers
• Project Coordinators
• Business Owners
• Consultants & Strategists

The line up of speakers at this point looks very promising. Ken Munro, the General Manager at Yahoo, Jordan Banks from e-bay, Jay Mitchell from AOL as well as 28 other industry experts.  I was also especially pleased to see some Atlantic Canadian speakers including a few women speakers (although still a small percentage) . Cheryl Chappel, Vice President - Integrated Marketing, Bristol Online, Krista White, Cossette Atlantic, Sarah Oldford, Online Media Manager, Colour, Wilma Hartmann, AppleCore Interactive, and Stephanie Lummis, ISL – Internet Solutions. If you follow the web 2.0/marketing conference circuit, you’ll often hear that one of the complaints is that there are not enough women in the speaker list. I’d like to see more women speakers but this is a good start.

I think 2008 is going to be one of the best year’s yet for Atlantic Canadians with conferences in online media. If you haven’t already don’t forget to register for The Power Within and Online Revealed. In the New Year, we’ll also hopefully have news on an unconference event as well.

I’m not a transit user anymore but I can see the value in this, especially in Fredericton. Visitors, new students and new residents especially will find it easier to reach their destination.

Fredericton Transit has joined with Google to offer a mapping service that allows transit riders to not only map out their routes, but to get walking route suggestions and projected durations of their trips at different times in the day.

It would come in handy for anyone who has tried to make sense of some of the transit routes where if you need to go to one side of the North Side to another area of the North Side by crossing to the SOUTH side of the river.

 
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Fredericton Transit

NB has made some good progress with the transit systems and the use of the web as Moncton had wifi implemented on their transit not that long ago.