Penelope Sloan Design Launch Party

I scoped out this event on Facebook and as fate would have it, I got a lovely email from a woman named Penelope Sloan inviting me to review the launch party of her business. When I visited her website (penelopesloan.com), immediately I could see that Penelope Sloan was going to join the club of Vancouver’s smart, savvy businesswomen turning a talent into a business. I immediately jumped on the chance to go and coincidentally this was my first time at Tunnel Lounge.

Tunnel is cool – long and narrow, with lighted tables and giant screens that displayed pages of Penelope’s website and the sponsors that donated food and gift bag swag.

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In my element at Reach Mag’s The Buzz Mixer

I wasn’t going to review this event because I am a huge supporter of Reach Magazine, which makes me a little biased, but I just felt I had to. I didn’t take any photos but they can be found on BC Business’s The Socialist blog in time; blogger Sheryl K. Yen was there taking pics of guests including myself. Believe me when I tell you there were a lot of fly looking people there.

The event was held last Friday August 13th at Joseph Richards Lounge, which was featured in a past issue of Reach. Guests got free drinks, and the first 50 people received gift bags from sponsors. The first hour or so was spent networking before a short lineup of speakers. I’d never been to the lounge when it was the Stone Temple, so I can’t really comment on whether or not it was better. It had an art deco flavour and there were some cool light fixtures. It was dark, but it IS a nightclub, and a little small for my taste, but a perfect venue for a business mixer with no more than about 100 attendees.

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Biz event review: Freelance Camp Vancouver

I learned about the first Freelance Camp coming to Vancouver through Minna Van on Twitter, and boy am I glad I went. I logged onto Twitter early in the morning on Saturday May 29th to see what other people were saying (using the hashtag #604freelancecamp) and was relieved to hear that they too were grudgingly getting up early on a Saturday morning to do this!

We were told that the camp would be ‘unconference’ style, meaning that there would be no set sessions until the day of, aside from the lunch ‘Keynote’ type session on making money online, by Michael Kwan and John Chow, who I’ve heard speak about making $40,000/month through his blog in a previous Meetup.com presentation.

Right at 9am all the attendees were invited to pitch a session they wanted to present. (A big thanks to Jeremy Lim who took WAY better photos than my iPhone and captured the moments much more beautifully.)

I was still waking up from my coffee so I gladly let others do their thing. After the agenda was filled, I got to choose between three different sessions in each time slot to go to (The Network Hub used their first floor meeting room, 3rd floor lobby, and 3rd floor meeting rooms as facilities). So, there was never a session that was too full, nor a day of repeated content.

I’m giving away the .TEL digital business card I got (valued at $19.99) because I already have one (sandragarcia.tel) so please leave a comment on this post or Tweet “I’d love to win @mc_marketing’s .TEL digital business card” to win. I’ll be randomly choosing the winner on Wed. night.
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