Excuse the sweat on our brow, the glow in our cheeks and the smile on our faces – but WHEW. Last Saturday Invoke and thousands of Vancouverite friends showed up in all manners of dress (or lack thereof) to race along 10th Avenue in support of Chip’s Not Dead Yet, a fundraiser for the BC Children’s Hospital – and what a successful Saturday it was!

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Trying to find Britney Spears on Twitter? Before June 11th, 2009 you’d have had 5 pages of search results to sift through. Looking for Ashton Kutcher? 11 pages. Oprah? Don’t even go there. So will the real celebrity please stand up? Twitter is aiming to combat the increasing problem of impersonators with its new Verified Accounts feature, currently in beta….

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Business Strategist and Invoke Partner, Dario Meli, will be a panelist at the Banff nextMEDIA conference taking place June 5-7. Speaking to representatives from companies such as Microsoft, RIM, Globe & Mail, MTV networks, Canwest and Ubisoft, Dario will join fellow Social Media experts to explain how best to engage the social media space. Fellow speakers on the panel Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin: Anyone else having trouble keeping up? include Chris Becker, CEO of FileMobile, Maggie Fox, Founder and CEO of Social Media Group, and Shira Lazar, maven of both new and traditional media. The panel is to be moderated by Kris Krug, President of Raincity Studios.

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