Last night, I was at the Bryght offices in Gastown for the inaugural meeting of the Social Media Club (Vancouver edition).

Photo by Roland.

Great crowd, great conversation and an agreement to meet again soon. Chris Heuer made the trip up from San Francisco to evangelize the idea, and I got the feeling that most of us felt it was the kind of club we’d like to belong to. I for one am ready for a bit of infrastructure to help spread the word about online social tools (there is life beyond Myspace, world) and clear up a lot of misconceptions about information sharing online. Read a proper report by an Actual-News-Guy-turned-citizen-journalist, over at NowPublic.

I’m looking forward to getting together as a group again, and if the next event attracts the same kind of turnout and lively conversation, then membership will follow soon after I’m sure.

For more, check out: Flickr, Roland’s blog for a video, and anything tagged “smc vancouver“

As reported by Ianiv of the Blogaholics, Grouse Mountain was giving away free lift passes yesterday, in exchange for a minimum donation of $2 for North Shore Family Services or canned goods for the Harvest Project.

My brother Wes, Rob and I all went up in the afternoon, and spent a few hours discovering Grouse Mountain for the first time, and getting some great runs in. A great time was had by all; it was sunny and warm and even though it was incredibly busy, the whole hill was full of happy people. I was most impressed by the view of Vancouver from the top:

Photo by Rob Masefield

When I started writing this series, I committed to seven parts. After writing part three or so, I realized that competing all seven parts was going to take some creativity. So I decided then that part seven was going was going to turn things back over to the community, and invite your additions, corrections, cheers, jeers or any other kind of feedback that you feel is fitting.

So call this an incomplete ‘manifesto,’ and add your two cents. After all, it’s no secret that much of the best content on the web is community generated and collaborative. If there is one nugget of advice in this, the last installment of a series about content on the web, it is to always invite the input of your community, listen to their ideas, and implement them as often as you can.

After all friends, your ideas are better than mine, and our ideas are better still.

Read the rest of the series here:

Part One: It’s all About You
Part Two: Call to Action
Part Three: Skip the Jargon
Part Four: More is More
Part Five: Be Relevant
Part Six: Blog!