Wrapping up MacEwan BlogCamp: Success!
Friday April 3 was the culmination of a big project for fusedlogic: MacEwan BlogCamp. It was Edmonton’s and, as far as we know, Alberta’s first blog contest. It was a unique opportunity to combine business, social media and education in one cool package.
We’d like to congratulate the top three MacEwan bloggers:
1. Carla Putnam
2. Patrick Finegan
3. Peter Jaffray
The prize for first place was an Apple MacBook. In addition to the contest winners, we’d like to congratulate everyone who participated. Blogging for nine hours is not easy under the best of circumstances and blogging for nine hours in a busy cafeteria would be even tougher.
But, our bloggers persevered and we had a lot of interesting posts. We gave them a variety of topics to blog about and we were impressed with the results.
Judging
The winners of the blogging contest were chosen based on a number of factors. We had a voting system in place that ranked posts based on the cumulative net difference between a thumbs up and a thumbs down rating given by blog post viewers. In addition, we also judged the blog posts based on originality and quality of content.
Sponsors
Our sponsors came through for MacEwan BlogCamp in a big way. We can’t say enough about how happy we are that they sponsored our contest and made a huge contribution to the success of BlogCamp.
The team
We would also like to thank Jana Clarke, Sarah Parker, Laura England, Joseph DiFabio and the rest of the Grant MacEwan College team for giving us the opportunity to help put on this event. It was a lot of work but it was a blast! Grant MacEwan College really put on a good show for everyone involved.
And to the fusedlogic team, thank you as well: Walter did a great job hosting BlogCamp and all the other tasks he had; without Evan and Paul we wouldn’t have had the website or the video running virtually glitch-free; Genoa did a great job keeping everyone organized; Doug kept everyone on track with his project management skills; Krysta did a great job with her video as well.
Ultimately I think we succeeded in our goal of helping to raise the profile of the MacEwan School of Business and we’re confident that will result in more inquiries about the School of Business. MacEwan School of Business really is a good choice for a business degree in Edmonton, Alberta and beyond. We’re looking forward to the next BlogCamp!
MacEwan BlogCamp photos
If you’re interested in having a look at some great photos of MacEwan BlogCamp, have a look at Bruce Clarke’s Flickr photos. He has 166 photos there to look at. Bruce made my job tough to decide on the best photos to post here because they were all good.
Alain Saffel
MacEwan Blogcamp April 3 @ noon
This is the last week in our MacEwan Blogcamp project and we’re ramping up for the big event at the end of the week.
Just in case you haven’t heard of Blogcamp, it’s happening April 3, starting at noon at the City Centre Campus of Grant MacEwan in downtown Edmonton. It will run for nine hours, and MacEwan students will be blogging about a variety of business and personally chosen topics during that time.
Blogcamp bloggers will have the chance to win great prizes, with the top prize being a MacBook.
How does this affect you? Well, you’ll have the chance to determine who the winner is. At the bottom of each blog post we’ll have a thumbs up and thumbs down. You get one vote on each post and you can comment as well.
Let those bloggers know whether you agree or disagree with what they’ve got to say. You’re also more than welcome to go to the campus cafeteria. There will be lots happening!
We’ve also got the trailer for the Mike & Lenny video up on the MacEwan Blogcamp site. Check it out and let us know what you think. The full video will be rolled out April 3.
MacEwan School of Business
I’m heading to the MacEwan School of Business today Grant MacEwan College here in Edmonton, Alberta to have an engaging chat about a class project. This class is participating in a Edmonton Police Service recruiting campaign competition. According to their project timeline, it’s now time to discuss web strategies, branding elements and messaging. I’ve been asked by Jana Clarke, Director of Marketing, to come down and provide the students with some specific insights into how they should proceed with social media. I’m very excited. My only concern is that I’ll only have 20 minutes to speak, so we’ll have to savor each minute carefully and deliberately. Having said that, there’s no doubt it will be fun and a great experience for me, and I hope for them as well. The goal with such little time will be to lay out a simple and easy to follow social media strategy framework that they can then take and expand as required.
