Tweet about food, enter to win free tickets to #VIFeast

The winning tweet - @VIReview's tweet about Cowichan's Rock Cod Cafe.
Congrats on winning a pair of tickets to #VIFeast on Sept 16!

A contest about eating on Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island Feast of Fields is happening this year in Duncan on September 16, 2012. If you'd like to enter to win a pair of tickets, please use Twitter and send a tweet with the following info:

• the name of your favourite Vancouver Island restaurant
• 3 words that describe that restaurant
• #tag it with #VIFeast
• #tag it with #threewords
• no limit to entries, ie. enter all your fave restaurants (but please don't duplicate tweets)
• not required, but feel free to add location too, ie. Comox, Duncan, Brentwood Bay, etc
• deadline: EXTENDED to midnight Sept 9, 2012 - Now completed, see pic above.

For example, my Tweets might be: 

• "Bob's Diner fat fast furious #VIFeast #threewords" or
• "Frank's Farm Table porkbelly rich sumptuous #VIFeast #threewords" or
• "Anne's Supper Club elegant fab wine #VIFeast #threewords"

Enter now...

Send in your #VIFeast #threewords entry now...

Vancouver Island Feast of Fields

For more information about #VIFeast and how/where to buy tickets, visit the website here. You can also see the event on Facebook here, and follow the event on Twitter here at @VIFeastofFields

Sharing the love of food...

As a writer and photographer and social media artist involved with food on Vancouver Island I get to share a lot of deliciousness. Sometimes the sharing is about giving away free tickets. Sometimes it's about telling the story of the producer or events that are part of the rich and rapidly developing food culture on the Island. If you'd like some help with telling your story or monitoring your online story via SayZu, contact me for a free consultation.

hanspetermeyer
29 August 2012

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Food. 80km around the Comox Valley

What the "local food" conversation looks like on August 12, 2012 on Twitter, within 80km of my home in the Comox Valley.

I write about food, mostly at UrbanDiner.ca, BonVivantVancouverIsland.com,  EatingandDrinkingComoxValley.com, and for the Food Centrefold at the regional Island Word print monthly. Most recently I posted about the #CVFarmCycle event. I'm passionate about food and flavours in this region, for lots of reasons:

• I love to cook and eat food that tastes good;
• I love to grow food;
• My mother and father produced a lot of the food I enjoyed (and sometimes resisted) as a kid growing up here in the Comox Valley;
• My grandparents were pioneer farmers in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island;
• Eating and drinking things that taste good is ... just 100% good!

Recently, I've gotten involved as social media sponsor with the Comox Valley Farmers' Market and the very exciting #FlavourSept23 - North Island Gourmet Picnic event. On Aug 24-25 I'll be posting about the upcoming #AlpineWine event at Mt. Washington Resort. I'm also a social media sponsor of the Vancouver Island Feast of Fields in Duncan on Sept 16. (Follow that one at #VIFeast2012 on Twitter.)

Story-telling: doing it, watching it unfold...

Being a social media sponsor or consultant means is that besides writing and photographing and interviewing and story-telling about local and regional food and drink, I'm also watching what's being said. If you follow my blog, you'll know that one of my favourite social media tools is SayZu. I love how interesting and easy this SayZu's data visualization makes the story-watching work.

Click on the image. On the words. Do some "right-clicking." You're now "inside" the "live, always-updating" SayZu visualization of what's being said on Twitter about keywords related to food in an 80km circle around the Comox Valley. Key search terms: farm, food, wine, #CVFarmCycle, #FlavourSept23, #AlpineWine, or #VIFeast2012.

If you're tweeting within 80km of my community and use any of these words in your tweet, you'll show up here.

Happy summer feasting! And if, like me, you can't help but take fotos and tweet about growing and eating and enjoying your feasting, please use one of the key search terms or #tags.

hanspetermeyer
12 August 2012

ps. I'll be offering tickets to various local food events on Vancouver Island over the year. I had one for #FilbergFest, now I've got 2 tickets to Flavour: the North Island Gourmet Picnic event on Septembert 23, 2012. How to win? Take a pic, tag it, enter. More info here at the  #FlavourSept23 #food #food contest.

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The #FlavourSept23 Food Foto Contest

A #FlavourSept23 foto from the kitchen at Locals in Courtenay. That's Jamie with some local raspberries being prepped for coulis later in the day.

Like local food? Like making and posting fotos of local food on Vancouver Island? Here's a way for you to win a couple of tickets to the "North Island's Gourmet Picnic" - #FlavourSept23.

How to play...

• Visit one of the more than 45 (and more every week) vendors or exhibitors at #FlavourSept23 listed on the event site. 
• Take a pic of something or someone you think tells the "local food" story on Vancouver Island
• Post your pic to Flickr or Instagram and #tag it with the event tag: #FlavourSept23 AND the vendor/exhibitor name (for example, "#FlavourSept23 Coastal Black" or " #FlavourSept23 Locals")
• Make sure your fotos are "public" and copyright is flexible (see "NOTE" below).
• Sorry, but both Picassa and Facebook make photo searches and contests "difficult" so aren't included in the contest - though I hope you cross post to them as well, I am;
• All fotos must be posted by midnight (PST) Sunday, September 9, 2012.

Want to watch the foto fun?

On Flickr...

On Instagram... via the Gramfeed viewer

Note on 'rights'

By tagging your foto #FlavourSept23 you are doing several things:

1. Making a public statement that you support local food production on Vancouver Island;
2. Showing active support by giving the #FlavourSept23 event organizers and me (hanspetermeyer.ca) "non-exclusive rights" to use your fotos to promote local food in the region;
3. Retaining all other rights of use.
4. If you apply a standard © copyright your images are not eligible.

In other words, the pics are yours, by sharing them you're allowing us to use them to help support local growers and vendors. A cool way to support our local economy. Thanks!

Questions? 

Send me a note via email or twitter and I'll do my best to get back to you within 24 hours.

PS: Island Soda Works has upped the ante here... "If the winner is an Island SodaWorks photo, I'll throw in a free variety pack of Island SodaWorks!" says ISW's Mandolyn. The gloves are off folks, any other exhibitors willing to put some product into the mix?

hanspetermeyer
updated 25 August 2012

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What does "fun" look like in the Comox Valley, August 13, 2012

What does "fun" look like in the Comox Valley, August 13, 2012,
originally uploaded by hanspetermeyer.ca.

What does "fun" look like today in the #ComoxValley? Top 200 words from 60+
tweets thx to @SayZu

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GPS trails for #realtime #foto work

From Powell River to way up Spring Main...

As I'm shooting I'm always looking for cool little tools. Yesterday (July 31, 2012) I was in Stillwater, BC to shoot for the Working in the Woods Today project, and to add new fotos to the 2013 forest industry calendar that'll help fund that project. Before we left the Marine Inn parking lot, I clicked on my iPhone's GeoTagr app before shooting. 

The map image shows where Randy Moore (of Adept Vegetation Management) and I drove, on our way to find his crew of brushers way back of Lois Lake behind Stillwater, south of Powell River.

I'll be testing this (and other) software to help make the real-time photo work I do more engaging and informative. Stay tuned!

And here's a pitch (and link) for a 30% discount on pre-production orders for the 2013 forest industry calendar (buy before Aug 31, 2012)

hanspetermeyer

1 August 2012