New Sponsor: iHonest.com
// August 31st, 2011 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates, Uncategorized
With your admission ticket to Freelance Camp, you will have a chance to win a year membership (valued at $198 each) to iHonest.com. Thank you to iHonest for their generous sponsorship and their support of the freelance community!
iHonest helps you establish instant trust and credibility with your prospects and clients and among your peers. With iHonest membership, you’re given a member profile to display your criminal record check and verified professional memberships & designations, as well as providing you with a Seal of Trust that you can use in your marketing. Members of iHonest are regarded as honest and trustworthy. When given a choice, your prospects will always choose the one they feel they can trust the most.
Mark Your Calendar! Freelance Camp is happening on Sept 10
// August 13th, 2011 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates, Uncategorized
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-(August 11, 2011)- Vancouver Freelance Camp is having their second annual, information packed UNconference on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at The Network Hub New Westminster. Experienced business personnel and successful local freelancers will be sharing their stories as well as insight on how to grow a freelancer’s business. This is a true UNconference, the schedule is created the morning of when the attendees arrive. We start the day off with guests pitching to be presenters for the day and the freelancers vote on who they want to hear speak.
Topics from landing a freelancer’s dream project to dealing with the nitty gritty details of doing business will be discussed. The Freelance Camp is the opportunity to make connections with like-minded people across many fields. Over 130 people attended last year’s event, including freelancers from Victoria, Kelowna and Seattle. The UNconference hosted 22 presentations where 196 cups of Waves Coffee was consumed. You won’t leave empty handed either because $5400 worth of goodies and $448 worth of door prizes were given to attendees last year to make being a freelancer even better. Attendees were also part of a wave of social broadcasting with 1478 tweets mentioning the event and were also a top trending topic in Canada on twitter for three hours.
The success of Freelance Camp raised $1100 last year and donated all its proceeds to Mental Health Camp – a conference on examining the possibilities of using social media to achieve and maintain mental health. It is important to Freelance Camp to give back to local initiatives and was excited to have Mental Health Camp as the benefactor.
The satisfaction of last year’s event has propelled Vancouver Freelance Camp to make this year’s event even bigger and accessible to more freelancers. We’ll be the first local event to use Google+ Hangouts to engage a maximum of 25 attendees per session off-site. Through live streaming video, participants can view and ask questions in Google+ Hangout allowing for 725 online viewings.
Registration to Freelance Camp is just $10 with the proceeds going to charity. For more information, or to register for the event, visit the website at http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/freelancecamp/ and follow Vancouver Freelance Camp on twitter at @604freelancers.
Freelance Camp
September 10, 2011, from 9am – 5pm
Freelance at a glance
// June 22nd, 2011 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates, Uncategorized
Life of a Freelancer
// May 13th, 2011 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates
Awesome infographs that describe the ups and downs of choosing the independent path! By the way, we are planning the next Freelance Camp conference! Want to be an organizer? Drop me a note at mvan [at] thenetworkhub.ca
Paying it forward
// June 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates
The first Freelance Camp was an overwhelming success for us; it created a sense of community and allowed for connections to be made between freelancers in Vancouver. With an outpour of support we had from Webnames.ca, Waves Coffee House, The Network Hub, Small Business BC, Lonsdale Rentals, Aquent and Cambie Vietnamese Restaurant, we were able to feed, supply and energize our freelancers throughout the day with little or no charge. With the nominal fee of $10 dollars to register for Freelance Camp, we have collected $1100 to sponsor another great Camp happening in Vancouver – MentalHealthCamp.
MentalHealthCamp is a conference about the intersection of social media and mental health. This year’s MentalHealthCamp theme is “Breaking Our Silence. Setting us Free.” The conference will examine how silence hurts mental health, and, more importantly, how using our voice helps us achieve and maintain mental health. In keeping with the spirit of MentalHealthCamp, we situate our conversations at the intersection of mental health and social media.
About Freelance Camp
Do you own your own business or are looking to start one? Are you a consultant or contractor? Service-based freelancers of all kinds rejoice — you’re no longer alone. Freelance Camp Vancouver is officially here. Over the last two years, Freelance Camps have been organized to connect and engage both new and experienced freelancers with potential employers and partners, and examine the many issues and challenges associated with the explosive growth of the freelance market. Due to the enormous success of Freelance Camps across the US, Vancouver hosted the first ever Freelance Camp in Canada on May 29th at The Network Hub.
About MentalHealthCamp
Mental illness is widely feared and misunderstood, resulting in lack of treatment, discrimination and isolation. In an effort to help combat the stigmas surrounding mental illness, Vancouver’s rapidly-growing social media and blogging community has organized the second annual Vancouver MentalHealthCamp for July 10, 2010. The day-long ‘unconference’ will be held at Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) building at the Point Grey Campus of The University of British Columbia. [Rooms (107/108) in the first floor and the Auditorium], from 8am – 5pm.
Registration for MentalHealthCamp is limited to 100 attendees interested in mental health issues and/or social media. Admission is $25 and no-one will be turned away for lack of funds. “Every effort will be made to help all attendees keep as much anonymity and confidentiality as possible in such a venue, and we are planning to have counselors available to attendees,” Dr. Pacheco-Vega added.
Media Contact:
Cathy Browne
+778.686.2761
cb@cathybrowne.com
http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/
Freelance Camp 2010 Pictures
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Photographed by www.jeremylim.ca
Reach Magazine features 8 Freelance Camp speakers
// June 12th, 2010 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates
Reach Magazine - Vancouver's Business Lifestyle Magazine
http://www.reachmag.ca
Reach Magazine is a free, full-colour, full-gloss quarterly publication that focuses on the niche market of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs make up a substantial amount of the economy of British Columbia. We plan to capture the interests of those who enjoy new innovations, fashion, social issues, and entertainment, by focusing on entrepreneurs from these industries. By featuring whom they are, how they started it, and why they do it, we plan to create a business lifestyle magazine.
Farewell and see you soon!
// June 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates
Final thank you to all our sponsors:
Webnames.ca
The Network Hub
Waves Coffee House
Lonsdale Rental
Small Business BC
Market Wire
Also without our organizing team, the event would not happen!
Minna Van
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Monica Kim
Yvonne Lum
John Van
Jay Catalan
The team from The Network Hub!
Special thank you to:
Stay tuned for the announcement of the next Freelance Camp!
Wrap-up for Freelance Camp
// May 31st, 2010 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates
We had a blast yesterday sharing, laughing and connecting with other freelancers in the community!
Fun facts about our very first Freelance Camp:
- 120 spring rolls + 120 salad rolls were consumed
- 196 cups of Waves coffee consumed
- $448 dollars worth of door prizes
- $5400 worth of goodies in total were given to all attendees
- 135 attendees from different background and disciplines
- 22 sessions were led from 10 am – 4:25 pm
- 1,309 mentions in 29 websites (blogs included)
- 401 views for 4 youtube promotion videos
- 1478 tweets mentioning the event (between May 25 – June 1)
- 12 meetup hosts sent Freelance Camp promo emails to their 6939 meetup members
- from 1pm – 4pm ish we were in the top trending topics in Canada on twitter
A wiki has been set up to share every thing that happened at Freelance Camp, head over to:
www.freelancecamp.pbworks.com
On the wiki, you will find schedules of the day, session leaders, topics, name and twitter account of attendees.
If you were at freelance camp, please update the wiki to share our day with everyone.
If you are a session leader, IF you are comfortable you can update the wiki with as much information as you want or not. Freelance is not FREE so we respect your wishes.
Pictures are up on flickr courtesy of our wonderful photographer Jeremy Lim
www.flickr.com/photos/jeremylim/4652025512
Lunch time featured speakers: John Chow and Michael Kwan
// May 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // 604 Freelance Camp Updates
Every one has a website so why not use it to make a healthy income? John Chow’s personal blog has been making over $40,000 a month and in his new book with Michael Kwan – “Make Monday Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul” they will show you how. We are excited to learn more about how freelancers can make money online. This is a lunch and learn session.
Lunch will be provided.
Take a look at this Dot Com Pho – Freelance Camp edition to get a sneak peek of what John Chow and Michael Kwan will talk about.
pictures of 2011 freelance camp
