Following Mack Male’s Twitter stream this morning (through the web, ggrrr) I caught his blog post with the announcement of the finalists for the New Media Awards:
Most Promising Company of the Year: * b5media, Toronto * Filemobile, Toronto * Viigo, Toronto—Live from nextMEDIA: 2008 Canadian New Media Award Finalists | Techvibes Blog

Of course all I have to say about that is: W00t!  Our fearless leader Jeremy Wright is there (he was speaking) as are other b5-ers.  So I expect to be able to blog the winners when they are announced.

Fingers crossed…

Now that I have all the stuff signed and such, I can let out one of my most poorly kept secrets of late—I’m moving to Toronto next month.  In addition to moving to Toronto, I’ll also be moving to full-time status at b5media as the Training Manager (believe it or not, this has only been a part time job, in theory).
Most of you know that I’ve been in BC for about 8.5 years now and mark ten years in Canada this month, and that I didn’t think I’d ever move back East.  I love BC.  Victoria is a great city, …read more

I’ve kept this under my hat for a while now, but I can finally announce, and very happily I must add, that Joey deVilla is joining b5media as Technical Project Manager.  Actually I like how he puts it–”Nerd Wrangler”:
I figured I’d start off the working week with a big announcement: I’ve landed a new gig. As of this Thursday, March 6th, I’m going to be working at b5media, a network of 320 blogs that gets a total of over 10 million unique visits every month.
Depending on whom you ask, my new job title will be “Nerd Wrangler” or “Technical …read more

Happy New Year all! Going to be an exciting year I can tell.  To start things off I’m going to get into the swing of doing a regular show on BlogTalkRadio here on Canadian tech-MapleLeaf2.0 Radio.  So I want to hear from you!  Lot’s of great tech in Canada so I’d like to chat with as many folks from Canadian tech start ups as I can.  If you want to be on the show, just leave a comment here or e-mail me at tris.hussey[at]b5media.com.
I won’t, of course, just talk about Canadian tech and social media-all manner of tech will be …read more

First I have to give props to Mark Evans for giving this blog an awesome foundation.  I have huge shoes to fill now!  As many of you know, I’ve known Mark for years, even from my days at Qumana and his at the National Post (it was always nice to have friends in the press).  Mark and I worked together here at b5 before I took what can now be called a "brief hiatus" with blognation.
Mark is now at PlanetEye and I’m back at b5.  In addition to Maple Leaf 2.0 I’m the Training Manager for b5media, which means I’m …read more