Vancouver, BC, Dec. 5, 2011 — Invoke, a Vancouver based digital agency, recently acquired Thirdi, a local digital production house focused on making web apps. “Invoke has grown substantially this year,” said David Tedman, the co-CEO of Invoke. “Acquiring Thirdi reinforces our growth strategy both in US markets as well as here in Vancouver.” Invoke [...]

If you’re still using Twitter for Web this post will hopefully change that. At Invoke, we have been using HootSuite the longest and should have some of the best dashboard set ups, in terms of functionality. Creating the perfect HootSuite dashboard is an art. It’s a process involving choosing keywords to track, search terms, finding [...]

Ashish Gurung teaches an undergraduate social media course at SFU Beedie School of Business. He is also involved with a bunch of other stuff ‚ some startups, some consulting and lots of non-profits. Find him @ashishgurung and http://www.ashishgurung.ca Tell us a bit about the social media course you created. What motivated you to create an [...]

Invoke jumped at the occasion to be a part of the 2011 Merging + Media conference. We’ve worked on some outstanding digital projects for TV, including Eat St. and VH1′s Single Ladies. This Friday, at the Woodwards building in Gastown, Invoke is demonstrating our projects as a part of the VEDC Innovation Gallery. Along with [...]

This is part two of our Facebook F8 new features and written by Invoke’s lead Facebook developer, Maxime Parmentier. Open Graph Protocol This protocol is not new. It was essentially the technology behind the Like button, but Facebook widened its usage. Previously, users were able to like an object or a page, but the Like [...]