Monday, May 26th, 2008 by Jenn Lowther

Posted by Jenn Lowther

Last week was an absolutely crazy busy week in Vancouver for Social Media and technology. The week started off with TechVibe’s Startup Career Fair and ended with the PopVox People’s Choice Awards - with VIGS/Vidfest Opening Ceremony, Launch Party 4, Cossette Convergence 2008, and VidFest in between. I will have a post on these events soon, but I want to tell everyone about our exciting news from the Awards.

Invoke was nominated for the New Media BC’s People’s Choice 2008 Award for Best User Generated Content or Crowdsourced Content Site for memelabs.com. Nadia and I had an incredible time at the Awards Ceremony and Gala. We were extremely honoured to be nominated for this award and ecstatic that we won.

Photo Credit: Dustin Sacks SillySoft Games

Invoke was up against some excellent competition and want to congratulate the following teams for the excellent work they have done. We were honoured to be competing against you.

• BussPass: Travels in Urbanity
• Changeeverything.ca
• Dare to be Digital: The Online Learning Challenge
• NowPublic.com
• Planetwide Media: Speed Racer Comic Book
• Protagonize: Story Writing Community
• Strutta
• Zeros 2 Heros: The Peoples Publisher

Invoke would also like to congratulate all of the other nominees and winners at the awards.

• Best Digital Animated Short: PSYOP, for Coca-Cola “Happiness Factory, the Movie”
• Best Digital VFX: Ubisoft, for Assassin’s Creed
• Best Game (Console/PC): Metanet Software and Slick Entertainment, for N+ on Xbox 360 / XBLA
• Best Game (Casual): Acronym Games, for Rocketmen: Axis of Evil
• Best Mobile (Game): The Saints, for NavBall
• Best Mobile (Application): CellMap Inc, for CellMap
• Best Digital Campaign: Rainmaker Entertainment and Zeros2Heroes Media, for A ReBoot ReLaunch
• Best Digital Score: Clicktoy Interactive Inc., for The Meadow
• Best Do-Gooder site (Social Change Initiative): smashLAB, for DesignCanChange.org
• Homegrown Award (Best BC-based Venture): smashLAB, for MakeFive.com

The evening was a smashing success and is an event Nadia and I will remember for quite some time.

Tags: 2008, award, memelabs, popvox

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