In fifth place with 69 votes, Eat St. App needs your help to scoop up a well-deserved award. The Urban Culture conference and Awards are Aug. 27 – 28 in Vancouver. The first annual event intends to celebrate and showcase the city’s rich culture, individualism, and some serious artistic talent. Included in that serious talent [...]

We’re excited to announce some great news from the Invoke and HootSuite crew from Austin Texas.  Just yesterday, O’Reilly media named their top influencers and influential companies at SXSW.  Last year it was @Twitter, this year it’s @HootSuite.

Last week, one of our babies, HootSuite, won a prestigious Canadian New Media Award for Best Social Media Application — exactly one year and two days after we launched. We were up against some stiff competition: a collaboration between Rip: A Remix Manifesto and Open Source Cinema which allowed users to edit and remix the now famous NFB film, and KWAD9 and their interactive content portal for French Canadian youth.

Yesterday evening, the partners at Invoke accepted the award for best application for Hootsuite (@hootsuite) at the 1st Annual Shorty Awards. More than 50, 000 public nominations and votes were tweeted to determine the winners. Hootsuite was one of the 26 winners of the evening (a full list can be viewed here).

The winners for the annual Advertising Age Davey awards have just been announced. Invoke was nominated for 3 awards and won 2 for the memelabs Wells Fargo Someday Stories campaign. Invoke won Silver in the Branded Content: Video/Films/Movie category and Silver in the Not-for-profit category. This award follows up the New Media BC’s People’s Choice 2008 Popvox Award for Best User Generated Content or Crowdsourced Content Site for memelabs that Invoke won this past April.