Third Wednesday

It’s the time of year for holiday celebrations and we’d like to invite all of you, your friends, and your colleagues to our last Third Wednesday of the 2010 calendar year.

We’re extremely happy to be sharing these festive celebrations with our special guests, CIPS – Canada’s Association of Information Technology Professionals. In addition to getting to chat with CIPS members, we’ll have some snacks on hand and a whole lot of holiday cheer!

• Date: Wednesday, December 15th 2010
• Location: the Foggy Goggle at 1667 Argyle Street in Halifax
• Time: 5-8pm

“Since 1958, Canada’s Association of Information Technology Professionals has helped strengthen the Canadian IT industry by establishing standards and sharing best practices for the benefit of individual IT professionals and the sector as a whole. CIPS offers:

So drop by, say hi, have a bite, and see some old friends and new before the holidays – and thanks to all of you for making 2010 a great year for Halifax Third Wednesday!

Special thanks to…

Feels like it’s been a long time between Third Wednesdays, so looking forward to seeing everyone at this month’s meetup:

• Date: Wednesday, April 21st
• Location: the Foggy Goggle on Argyle Street in Halifax
• Time: 5-8pm

April’s Third Wednesday discussion topic has been set by community voting:

• “What are the iPad, Kindle, and other devices saying about the future of media?”

This won with 43% of your votes (with 42 people voting). Thanks everyone who voted and remember to tweet your suggestions for May’s discussion topic (and anything else Third Wednesday-related) with the tag #3whfx (and feel free to re-suggest any non-winning topics you liked).

Always open to ideas for how do best leverage the new website and improve the Third Wednesday event, so feel free to leave a comment or drop us an email!

We’ve decided to cancel March’s Third Wednesday meetup because…

• the third Wednesday of this month (Mar 17) is falling on St. Patrick’s Day, so the Goggle/wherever else will likely be too busy for anyone to have a real discussion, etc., and since…
• Digital Nova Scotia (used to be ITANS) has their TechLounge meetup (all are welcome) on the 18th, that Thursday night after work, which would be the first sensible postponement, is also out – and due to the fact that…
• Twestival Halifax is happening the following Thursday the 25th, and we wouldn’t want to siphon anyone from that great event, and besides…
• Halifax Startup Drinks is usually the last Wednesday (the 24th) of that month, taking out the other go-to postponement date.

On the upside: Halifax, it looks like we’re getting a pretty healthy, lively, and fun tech/media/marketing community – that’s fantastic to see and it’s because of all of you! There’s been so much growth in the past few years, it’s been incredible.

So let’s try to take part in some of these other great events and we’ll see everyone all rested up and ready for mingling and discussion on April 21st for the next Third Wednesday.

PS: We’ll keep the existing discussion poll open for that topic, so vote if you haven’t already – thanks!

The next Third Wednesday will be February 17th at the Foggy Goggle on Argyle Street in Halifax from 5-8pm. Discussion topic to be announced.