2013-05-28

Get ready to Jam!

We're one week away 'til the first ever GovJam Toronto! My life is lists this week... organizers are caught up in confirming details and keeping track of lots of little things to get ready.

What can you, the participants, do to prepare?

  • Read the GovJamTO Guidebook. It's not very long, and full of helpful information for the Jam. (Download it by clicking on "File" and then "Download.")
  • Start tweeting about it. Follow the global hashtag, #GGovJam, and please also attach the #GovJamTO hashtag when talking specifically about Toronto's event.
  • RSVP for the after-party. The after-party follows the last day of the Jam on Thursday, June 6. We need your RSVP to know where to have it (either a small, cozy corner of a pub, or bigger space in a pub... [rest assured, it will be a pub. :p]). So RSVP to the Tweetvite invitation, or email me to let me know you're planning to come.
Participants will have received an email from me earlier today (Tuesday), but if not, check your junk mail - I always forget that when including multiple links (and BCC:ing all for privacy), some email filters might pick up the email as spam.

That's it for now - look forward to meeting everyone!

Edited 05/29: Less acronyms & more to the point. And sorry for all the hashtags! 
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 May, 2013 20:26

    #GGovJam, #GovJamTO, #w2pyyz, "IGGI"

    So many terms...

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  2. meshie29 May, 2013 20:33

    Point taken. It's a perfect storm of hashtags... You get a lot of acronyms with organizers who work for the government. :p

    #GGovJam = the global hashtag for GovJam (official)
    #GovJamTO = the local hashtag for Toronto's Jam
    #w2pYYZ = the hashtag we use to organize our IGGI events.
    IGGI = Inter-Governmental Group of Innovators (I might just retire this one and replace it with w2pYYZ...)

    Normally, we'd only be using one hashtag - #w2pYYZ - for our IGGI mixers to promote events on Twitter. It's confusing because worlds are colliding!!

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