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A surprise visitor to our back yard yesterday, just before sunset. A Barred Owl (Strix varia), I think. S/he calmly surveyed our interest in her/him from 30 feet up in the leafless canopy before taking off in search of dinner.
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Ola Vola in action working on a mural for Hootsuite in Vancouver. Check out her work here: olavola.com/
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Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
This is another Company Policy + Chairman Ting collaboration project commissioned by Invoke Media, the founders of HootSuite.
A few pics I took after the wall was finished at around 130am. Somewhat of a victory dance after it was finished because we had just pulled a 15 hour straight work day and running high on Mike's spray paint fumes.
Here's the time lapse video on Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/7909746
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Vancouver, Canada.
November 2009.
PHOTO CAPTION: Steven Hoover, command information chief, U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys (center), demonstrates the use of Hootsuite, an online application used to schedule posts to Facebook and Twitter, to members of the garrison's social media team.
USAG Humphreys takes top honors for excellence in social media communications
Click here to visit the USAG Humphreys Social Media Network
Story and photo by Edward N. Johnson, USAG Humphreys, Public Affairs
CAMP HUMPHREYS, REPBULIC OF KOREA - The U.S. Army Installation Management Command recognized USAG Humphreys today with a first place award in the 2011 Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Competition for "Outstanding Initiatives in New Media."
"This award is a real testament to the success of our social media communications strategy and overall public affairs program," said Col. Joseph P. Moore, USAG Humphreys commander, "but what I'm most proud of is the teamwork across the garrison that went into achieving this accomplishment."
According to Moore, engaging the community via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter has made it easier for him to share news and information, announce post status updates, answer questions and work with community members to collectively resolve problems in an open and transparent online venue.
"In the past, community members might have had to wait for the next town hall meeting, before they could voice their concerns, and that often lead to frustration," said Moore. "By opening up lines of communication in the online world and addressing issues as they happen, Facebook has become the garrison's de facto, 24/7, town hall meeting -- and that's a good thing for everyone."
The ability to communicate rapidly via social media has proven particularly important for the garrison, as it transforms to become the largest Army installation in Asia.
Home to the 2nd Infantry Division's combat aviation brigade and the Army's most active airfield in the region, the number of Soldiers stationed at Humphreys is expected to grow in the coming years by 238%, from 6,67 to 22,497 and the number of families is on track to grow by1,270 percent.
As part of its transformation, U.S. Forces Korea will relocate from areas in and north of Seoul, to two enduring hubs south of the Han River; the northwest/Pyeongtaek hub, consisting mainly of USAG Humphreys and Osan Air Base; and the southeast /Daegu hub, comprised mainly of USAG Daegu and Chinhae Naval Base.
"We are now home to the largest construction site in the history of the Army," said Steven Hoover, the garrison's chief of command information and a Facebook aficionado. "During this period of rapid transformation, being able to effectively communicate construction updates, road closures, service provider moves, grand openings and other construction-related news and information would simply not be possible without using all of the social media tools at our disposal."
Hoover believes the role social media plays in distributing news and information will continue to increase on par with the growth of the garrison.
"Our newspaper remains an important part of our communications strategy, but it's only printed once a week and can't always keep up with the pace of activity on the installation," said Hoover. "We specifically designed the garrison's social media network in a modular fashion, to ensure it expands with the garrison and remains relevant throughout the transformation process."
According to Hoover, the overall success of the garrison's social media initiatives is due in large part to the active role taken by the garrison's commander, his deputy and other members of the garrison staff, in interacting with the community on sites like Facebook.
"On a daily basis, either the commander or someone else from the command group is on Facebook fielding questions from our community and responding to comments and concerns," said Hoover. "This active involvement by our leadership goes a long way in building trust and confidence with our audience, because they know their voices are being heard by the people who can help them."
Hoover also made the observation that the popularity and growth of the garrison's social media network's audience base appears to be accelerating.
"Over the past year our Facebook audience has grown by 70 percent and more members of the community are turning to social media for their news and information than ever before," said Hoover. "I'm really blown away by the number of people who are visiting our social media sites, joining our online discussions or sharing photos and videos from our online archives."
According to data collected by YouTube and Flickr, the garrison's online video channels and photo archives are among the most visited social media sites in the Army.
"We've now uploaded more than 22 thousand photos to our Flickr photo sites and they've been viewed more than seven million times. Our videos on YouTube are also being viewed at a rate of about 100,000 times a month - these are big numbers," said Hoover. "Just yesterday, we uploaded 234 photos from one of our weekend events, and they've already been viewed more than 12,000 times."
According to Hoover, one of the advantages of social media over traditional media platforms like newspapers, television or radio, is the ability to measure analytical data, site traffic, viewer preferences and trends.
"Being able to measure what works and what doesn't, has really helped us ensure we're providing the news and information people need - when and where they want it," added Hoover.
While the garrison's social media network was primarily designed with its local community in mind, it is also used to share news, information and multimedia products with a world-wide audience.
"We currently publish videos to several sharing sites like YouTube, Break and Dailymotion," said Cpl. Han, Jae Ho, a Korean Augmentation to the United States Army Soldier and member of the garrison's social media communications team. "These sites are really useful in distributing newcomer and welcome videos, and it's a lot less expensive to use them than producing and distributing DVDs the old fashioned way."
As part of his daily routine, Han is responsible for selecting and uploading photos to the garrison's Flickr image archive, as well as publishing content from the Morning Calm Newspaper to social media sites like Scribd and Facebook.
"These tools are really powerful and it's an honor to be serving as part of this team." said Han. "Working as a social media communicator has definitely opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me."
While the garrison's social media network has already proven to be a successful tool in communicating with local, regional and world-wide audiences, garrison officials say their work is far from over.
"We're currently expanding our social media infrastructure to meet the needs of our growing community and testing new automation tools to improve the way we update our sites and push out information," said Hoover. "But of course, it's not just about the technology, it's also about ensuring we do everything in our power to build open, honest, transparent and meaningful online relationships with our audiences here and around the world."
The garrison's social media entry, along with IMCOM's other winners, will now go on to compete alongside winning entries from other major Army commands, at the Department of the Army level.
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"Advocates say that more police in shelters means more harassment of the homeless. Last month, the New York Civil Liberties Union announced a settlement on behalf of three homeless men who were kicked awake and whose belongings were thrown into a trash compactor by police and sanitation workers in October 2016. In the settlement, the city will provide compensation for the personal items police illegally seized and discarded, which included Social Security cards, birth certificates and medication."
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"Warehousing is not social housing and no wonder the residents are pissed off and feel they were deceived."
(Alison Acker; Raging Granny)
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Super Intent City created a safe supportive community - and they did it better than any efforts by our government and their Poverty-Pimping agencies.
Many of the Super InTent City community and organizers were targeted by the police and other Poverty-Pimps, like PHS, and they continue to be. It has worsened.
Tight knit familial groups were broken up, divided, especially the vocal proponents and organizers of Super InTent City. They are terrorized by police, suffer from stress, broken government promises, reduced funding, personal property destroyed and/or disposed, reduced access to supports, inadequate diet, worsening health and poverty.
The government "solution" has been an abysmal failure; its only success was public relations; fooling their public into believing their tax dollars are improving life for the homeless when, in fact, it has worsened. More have died, more have been imprisoned, and more have been displaced and separated from support groups.
There are many good people advocating for this beleaguered community and the United Nations is listening. Victoria is not fairing well in the eyes of the human rights advocacy field.
This is a monumental challenge, but it is a moral duty to help the less fortunate; essential for the soul.
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...lately it seems like you can't swing around a broken promise to the poor without hitting a cop at the BC Housing PHS-run expired elderly-care-facility come shelter(?), mental health home(?), residential tenancy apartment(?), who knows what the heck this Soft Incarceration thingy is?
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When housing is treated a commodity, this is what's left for the poor, disabled...
It's Not Right To Deny Their Rights
I've been working with a resident committee down at the Johnston Street Portland Hotel Society boondoggle, helping residents with various matters, including; OPCC and HRT complaints; a Class-Action Lawsuit we're preparing for; the documentation of some of their concerns with my camera, and other issues.
Entry into this building is typically difficult, especially for the resident's advocates and friends. Identification is required for visitors, after you have found the person so they can personally vouch for you.
This is all made more difficult without any sort of buzzer system. Sometimes you find someone who can go in to find them for you, maybe they have a phone so you try to call them ...and there is no way staff will help you or use the intercom system. Obstacles everywhere.
The other day I was stopped and abruptly questioned as to my purpose, and what I intend on using my camera for. Apparently, they only question photographers with large obvious cameras, and not every person who may have a cell phone camera, or other device - just big cameras.
It took me nearly 20 minutes of lectures about the limitations of photographers rights (that don't exist) from 5 PHS staff members, and I was followed and checked up on several times, including one female staff member (wife of somebody with PHS) who eaves dropped on my conversations, even rolling her eyes at me from listening to private conversations that were none of her business.
It's a hostile environment, and this was confirmed by EVERY resident I spoke with; HIGH LEVELS OF STRESS induced by mystery rules that apply to a mysteriously classified building.
Many talked about needing to escape from the closed-quarters, confinement and oppressive rules.
Is it a mental health facility? ...a shelter?
I heard both from staff when they explained restrictions placed upon both residents and their visitors.
(Video soon come)
Is it housing protected under the residential tenancy laws, as the residents were promised prior to moving in?
Why do residents' visitors face such scrutiny while the police wander through with impunity. While I was there I observed and documented many police inside and out, circling about, on foot, in cars ...I observed PHS staff meeting police officers across the street on two occasions, and a couple of the PHS staff walked a plain clothes officer inside the building. All of this during my short and HEAVILY SCRUTINIZED visit.
Police instruct the obedient PHS that residents are not allowed to take photos and video, and the staff comply. Residents and visitors are told they are not allowed to take pictures (collect evidence) in their own building; residents are restricted access to areas such as fire exits; residents are continually frustrated with being provide no answers to their questions and queries; residents are locked (tied with ropes) in their rooms when staff or police decide they wish to do so; no doors for their bathrooms, especially awkward when you have company or the PHS staff and/or police conduct the "welfare checks".
Securing personal property is difficult, and risky at best; exacerbated by thefts, or questionable disposal of stored property by PHS staff...
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...and so the work continues; FOI requests are in and more are coming; OPCC and HRT complaints are in and more are coming, The United Nations is paying attention to the rights violations and neglect of the poor and homeless in Victoria, with an update delivered to the U.N. today ...and the beat goes on.
We must end the criminalization of the poor and downtrodden.
We must begin to properly address the needs of the poor and downtrodden.
It's that time again! Every March the geeks gather in Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival. Split into three sections, Interactive, Film and Music, this festival has something for everyone. Whether it's an up and coming band, an innovative piece of technology or an inspiring film, SXSW has it all. :)
Social Media & Business (BUS 450) is a course that aims to develop students' understanding of how individuals, communities, and organizations make use of social media principles and platforms to engage with one another and to develop innovative business models.
Under the leadership of Beedie assistant professor Jan Kietzmann and 2010 Beedie alumnus Ashish Gurung, the course involved thoughtful discussions with the students creating their own social media campaigns. A number of industry guests were invited to speak as well, including Michael Geist, Translink, Hootsuite, and Crowdbooster.
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It's that time again! Every March the geeks gather in Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival. Split into three sections, Interactive, Film and Music, this festival has something for everyone. Whether it's an up and coming band, an innovative piece of technology or an inspiring film, SXSW has it all. :)
Keeping an eye on the hottest emerging companies is a worldwide affair … as watchers of HootSuite, Spotify, Seeking Alpha, Boxee and Rovio will tell you.
23 May 2019; Ryan Holmes, Founder, Hootsuite, left, Jean-François Gagné, Co-founder & CEO, Element AI, Michele Romanow, Co-Founder & President, Clearbanc, Ba Blackstock, CEO & Creative Director, Bitmoji, and Jon Erlichman, Anchor, The Open, BNN Bloomberg, on Center Stage following day three of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Collision via Sportsfile