Technology and Social Change - Wellington Student Workshop

Last night yMedia ran our first workshop for 2008!

18 students from Victoria University, Natcoll Design Technology and Massey University came to the meeting room at the Xero Wellington office on Customhouse Quay.


We started the night off with some pizza and Epic Beer. We also had some veges with Lisa's hummus (unfortunately no, we're not getting any sponsorship from her).

Pamela Minett and Adele Barlow introduced the students and speakers.



Tim Norton presented first with a compelling presentation about the power of "purpose", with the message that you can do what you love to do and "make it your day job". Check his blog at http://www.makeithappenhq.com/


Sigurd Magnusson (Siggy) followed with a demonstation of SilverStripe and of course the funny YouTube video.



Nathan Champion finished with a student preso on Managing a Project. Check his Saatchi & Saatchi Internship blog and YouthLaw digital media blog.


Thanks to everyone who made it possible and thanks to everyone who came!

Quick catch up on last few weeks...(cont'd)

I arranged to meet Luke Nicholas of Epic Beer at yMedia's lunchroom, that is the Strawberry Alarmclock in Parnell.

I offered to get him a coffee, turns out he doesn't drink coffee, oh yeah Epic Beer, I should've figured. Then again, 10:30am is probably a bit early to get started.

Luke started Epic Beer after purchasing the rights to it from the Cock & Bull in October last year. His marketing is solely based on social media. That is, constantly twittering, blogging, on Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube. And it works, he's got 277 followers on Twitter all tuned in to his latest updates, how the brewing is going, new distribution channels and beer tastings. It was cool to see an entire business running on word of mouth like that. Respect!

Anyway, we got straight to the point (haha not really - we were having too much fun looking at his photos on his iPod touch).

We'd love some Epic Beer for the workshops we're running this year. Shouldn't be too difficult, Pamela and I will write up a short proposal and email it to Luke soon...