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Toronto’s TransGaming Studios, the makers of Kula Blox and Garage, Inc., is looking for an experienced Game Designer.

You must have a proven track record of designing casual games demonstrated by having multiple titles shipped under your design leadership. You are ambitious and have a lot of initiative and enthusiasm. You have a passion for the game industry as a whole and deep knowledge of the casual space in particular. Read the rest of this entry »

DigiBC would like to invite you to an evening of networking featuring the world renowned cuisine and spirits by Chef Dale Mackay, recent winner of Canada’s Top Chef on Food Network Canada. This event, which will be held at the Ensemble Restaurant in Vancouver, is being hosted by DigiBC to give members and prospective members the opportunity to meet one-on-one with the leaders in the digital media and wireless industry from the association’s world class board of directors. Tickets for this event, which will take place from 6:00p.m. until 10:00p.m. on October 17th, are $45.00 per person for members or $75.00 per person for non-members. Upon completion of their registration, attendees will be asked which of DigiBC’s directors they would like to meet with. Each meeting will give attendees 15 minutes per director: Read the rest of this entry »

TECHNOCompétences, in partnership with the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT) has unveiled its program for the Quebec component of National ICT Careers Week. The program runs throughout the month of October and will take two forms: classroom sessions and an interactive career show. Many dignitaries attended the launch, including the Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports, Line Beauchamp. Read the rest of this entry »

Ceridian and Dayforce have announced a major expansion of the InView solution that will bring payroll, HR, self-service, benefits and workforce management onto a single platform, backed by Dayforce’s award-winning technology. The integrated InView solution will build upon the overwhelming success of the workforce management solution that the companies brought to market this year. That product was roundly applauded by analysts and clients alike. Read the rest of this entry »

UBC Robson Square has spaces available in the following two Continuing Studies courses:

Mobile Content Design and Development Course

Mobile devices are changing the way we interact with information, news and entertainment. From downloading an events page to trading stock to ordering pizza, people are doing more on their mobiles than ever before. This course introduces you to the mobile user’s frame of mind, needs and limitations, and provides best practices in content publishing for mobile. Topics include basic concepts in usability for mobile smart phone and tablet websites, how to prioritize relevant content, and measure your success in meeting the needs and expectations of your users. Through an exploration of case studies, you learn how to make better content decisions to ensure that your website is truly “mobile-friendly”.

Course runs 4 Mondays, October 24-November 14th, 6:30-9:30pm, at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver

UBC Continuing Studies – Social Media Metrics Course

Measuring ROI is a critical skill for any marketing professional, yet the social media space provides new measurement challenges and questions. Knowing how to evaluate your social media efforts involves understanding social metrics and how to measure and evaluate your audience’s behaviour. In this course, you learn to define what a social media metric is, whether to assess qualitatively or quantitatively, and how to determine the best metrics for your business objectives. Understand your online demographics and audience profile, and find out how to measure efforts beyond publishing, through a lens of engagement, influence and market activation. Finally, learn to gather actionable insights from your results.

This course runs 4 Tuesdays, October 18-November 15, 2011 at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver.

Canadians know far more about how to use digital technologies than about how to protect themselves and others from vulnerabilities created by those technologies. To counter the growing range of cyber threats, this gap in knowledge and awareness needs to be closed, says a Conference Board of Canada report, It’s All About You: Building Capacity in Cyber Security.

The report, which is available as a free download (PDF) from the Conference Board of Canada’s e-library (free account registration required), was produced with the support of the Centre for National Security. The Centre provides a trusted forum for public and private sector organizations to engage with each other on the critical issues affecting Canada’s national security today and in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

The International Association of Business Communicators Canada (IABC Canada) has announced the 2011 recipient of its prestigious Master Communicator designation. Anna Marie Willey, ABC, Director of Communications and Marketing at University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan is Canada’s newest Master Communicator (MC).

The IABC Master Communicator designation is the association’s highest honour in Canada and recognizes outstanding career achievements; contributions to the communications profession; thought leadership, teaching and writing in communications; service and leadership in IABC; and, overall contributions to the broader community. Read the rest of this entry »

UNIT4 Business Software’s parent company UNIT4, a provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC™), has announced the results of a survey undertaken by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC), which has found that many higher education institutions are not meeting business-change management requirements as a result of rigid enterprise software that is costing them between $100K and $1 million to make changes after the software is installed. Read the rest of this entry »

Merging Media 2011 has announced that Jennifer Newman Rutsky and Sean Elbe have each won a full pass to the October 27th & 28th conference after participating in a Twitter and Facebook promotion. Tickets for the conference, which will be taking place at The Woodwards Heritage Complex, are still available for purchase.

In other event news, the deadline for Pitch 360 and a chance to win this year’s $10,000 BC Film Development Award has been extended to October 5th in order to encourage more up and coming media producers and developers with innovative projects to participate.

Eight participants with innovative cross-media projects will be selected to battle it out a la ‘Dragon’s Den’ style for the grand prize at the Pitch 360 sessions on October 28th, hosted by new-dad-to-be Victor Lucas. The organizers are accepting early to late stage development projects for consideration, so get your submissions in today. If I had more confidence, a lot more knowledge about production, a team and a fully fleshed out plan, I’d enter the Pitch 360 program in a heartbeat. The BC Film Development Award would at least get the cross-media project idea I’ve been sitting on for a year off the ground.

On October 1st and 2nd Concordia University will be presenting Games Colloquium, part of Entretiens Jacques Cartier 2011. The first day of the colloquium is open to the public and will feature four panels with academic speakers and industry representatives engaging in focused discussion on a single game. The evening will feature a keynote presentation by David Cage, founder and CEO of the Paris-based studio Quantic Dream and lead designer for Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999), Fahrenheit (2005) and Heavy Rain (2010). This keynote is co-sponsored by the Montreal chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). Admission to Day one is free, however registration is required. Day Two is by invitation only. Read the rest of this entry »