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#41 jklymak

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 03:33 PM

Congratulations! Well-deserved recognition of what you guys do here.

#42 zoomer

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 03:47 PM

Awesome! From humble beginnings to being a vital component of community discussion in Victoria, well done.

#43 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 08:14 PM

http://www.timescolo...8303/story.html

Mike Kozakowski of VibrantVictoria.ca won the Community Builder Award for the community-driven news forum. “This award is a recognition of the many individuals (that’s you, VV’ers!) who love to keep our community informed on as many different issues as there are opinions in our city,” was posted on VibrantVictoria.ca along with a photo of the award.


<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#44 Mike K.

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 08:11 AM

I just cannot stress enough how this award is a recognition of all of our visitors whose input and contributions over the years have made VV into what it is! Congrats again to all of you :)

And for the record, it is very odd to have photos of myself circling around the Interwebs.

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#45 Ms. B. Havin

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 11:10 AM

Props to VV! Soooo well-deserved!

Fantastic news. Congrats to all here who contribute.

It is a sad state that we are in where our local newspaper is so biased against social media, that it did not make one mention of ANY winner in any category from last night's award ceremony. Their online article this morning should have shown more responsibility.

I also thought that VHF should have won the best facebook page. If you have been to I heart Downtown Victoria, you would probably agree with me.


^ Yes, agree fully on all 3 points, particularly on VHF's Facebook page, I <3 Downtown Victoria. It's awesome on Facebook, and VV is awesome everywhere! :)
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#46 spanky123

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 11:38 AM

Fantastic news. Congrats to all here who contribute.

It is a sad state that we are in where our local newspaper is so biased against social media, that it did not make one mention of ANY winner in any category from last night's award ceremony. Their online article this morning should have shown more responsibility.

I also thought that VHF should have won the best facebook page. If you have been to I heart Downtown Victoria, you would probably agree with me.


The TC mentioned Mike's win today so they didn't ignore VV. As much as I enjoy VV and value the content, the reality is that the TC claims 100K readers while VV has a total of 2.2K members and 350 people who have ever made more than 10 posts. I think that the TC doesn't give VV credit simply because they don't view VV as being significant :-)

#47 G-Man

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 12:10 PM

Yeah well if you are counting those that read the content it is far higher than that. I think the site has over 500k unique visitors a year so that is pretty impressive. Mike can correct me if I am wrong.

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#48 Mike K.

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 01:23 PM

165,000 people read VV annually, some 90% of which are from the south Island. On a typical month VV sees around 20,000 visitors. If a major issue is coming to a head, like the bridge vote or municipal elections, we can see those numbers spike significantly.

But if we are to compare apples to apples we should remember that the TC draws from a pool of 750,000 residents (V.I.) and being the major daily receives national attention. VV draws from 350,000 (greater Victoria) and while the TC is a daily source of Island news, VV is as much a reference as it is a source of certain issues vetted on a daily basis. In short VV and the TC are similar in some ways and very different in others.

As for the TC viewing VV as "significant" or not, we obviously have no way of knowing that ourselves, but when the paper recently ran a poll on its online edition to ask where their readers supplement their news, VV was mentioned along with the other media in this city. One can assume if VV wasn't seen by other media as a source of news for local residents it wouldn't have been listed as an option (and it was the only non-mainstream media option).

I know I speak for the entire mod team here when I say that we sincerely appreciate the mention in the TC.

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#49 Sparky

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 04:04 PM

^ Yes, I think an acknowledgement in the TC was in order, and it was appreciated.

Thanks again to all of our readers and contributors that truly make all of this happen on a daily basis.

The content that can be viewed here can vary from a stash of aerial photos from yesteryear, to developers sharing for the first time plans of a new development literally hours after a news release, to would be politicians that desire to make a difference.

Add to that a couple of jokes here and there, and some posts about goings on in a particular neighborhood.... and you end up with a forum that is as diverse as it's audience.

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:47 PM

Congratz again on winning this. Since it's been a few months, I wonder if it's possible to reduce the length/move the write-up on the start page of the discussion forum so that one doesn't have to scroll down so far on a smartphone to see what threads have been updated? It's not huge deal, it's just that I remember how the main page of the discussion form used to be more user friendly before it and I miss it. Definitely not trying to pee on anyone's parade by suggesting this.

#51 D.L.

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:50 PM

here here!

#52 Sparky

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 01:02 PM

Mike was thinking about deleting it and moving on. I think I was the one to tell him to keep it.

Mike....Bob is right. Time to nuke yesterday's news and make it mobile friendly.

Thanks Bob. :)

#53 Bingo

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 08:10 PM

Mike was thinking about deleting it and moving on. I think I was the one to tell him to keep it.

Mike....Bob is right. Time to nuke yesterday's news and make it mobile friendly.

Thanks Bob. :)


You could also eliminate the Latest Local News at the top of the page, which mentions items up to two months old. There seems to be a lot more scrolling with the new design to get you to the bottom of the page.

#54 Mike K.

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 09:31 PM

Yup, I'll go ahead and take it down.

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#55 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 03:19 PM

OK, we are here once again, SMC 2013.

This year, we did not feel right to nominate ourselves for awards (and I guess nobody else bothered to do it for us). Plus the categories are a little different this year.

Plus we wanted to step down to spend more time with our respective families. :wave:

SMC goes tomorrow through Wednesday this week, I'll be speaking for an hour on Wednesday.

Anybody going this year?
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#56 Sparky

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 07:08 PM

A whole hour?

#57 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 07:11 PM

A whole hour?


Well, my time slot is one hour. I suppose I could speak for 45 minutes, then take questions for 15 minutes. But I have well over an hour's material. My social media lunches always go over 90 minutes.

Remember, most of my stuff is just a carefully edited and re-crafted version of the Gettysburg Address.
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#58 Sparky

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 07:17 PM

:)

#59 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 02 May 2014 - 12:22 PM

One year has gone by.  One of our FB pages is up for an award tonight.

 

 

 

Here's some twitter leaders around town, btw:

 

Times Colonist 26,400
Victoria Police 14,100
Keith Baldrey 13,600
City of Victoria 13,300
Vaughn Palmer 12,200
Zone 91.3 FM 12,200
CBC on the Island 10,000
Victoria News 9,726
Monday Magazine 9,462
Play in Victoria 8,582
Q 100.3 FM 8,593
I  Downtown Victoria 8,405
CFAX 8,224
CHEK News 8,012
Victoria Royals 7,908
Charles Isherwood 7,339
Saanich News 7,095
Janis La Couvée 6,763
Douglas Magazine 6,696
Kool FM 6,531
Andrew Holenchuk Real Estate 5,715
VibrantVictoria 5,568
janniaragon 4,743
Ocean FM 98.5 4,650
Jack FM 4,839
Cabin 12 4,513
Niche Magazine 4,047
CTV News Vancouver Island 3,897 
Victoria HarbourCats 2,178
Oak Bay News 2,147....


<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

 



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