Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jan 9, 2012, 12:06 pm
I am constantly amazed at how many people seem to think that in the digital space it is okay to cut and paste other people’s work. They will cut and paste full blog posts written by others onto their site and use photos without the proper permissions, neglecting to credit and link the sources.  I...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jan 5, 2012, 12:53 pm
2011 was a year of challenges, both personally and in business. In terms of Ahimsa Media, it was a year that saw much growth in the company in a positive way, in which Lori and I really were able to make some informed decisions on the direction we wanted to take the company.  It was also a very bu...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Oct 26, 2011, 3:35 am
Two principles that Ahimsa Media has been built upon are education and the sharing of ideas and collaborating with others.  This is what we did back in the day with Megan Cole and Bridging Media to encourage the conversation between technology, digital media and traditional media.  When Megan and ...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jul 9, 2011, 1:30 pm
It’s summertime again, that glorious moment when Ahimsa Media gets to pull new talent onto our team. Two new talents, actually, fresh out of the school year and willing to lend us their creative energies for the summer. Meet Ahimsa’s summer interns for 2011, Kelly Lui and Kino Zhao! Kino and he...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jul 8, 2011, 6:57 pm
All of us here at Ahimsa Media have been enjoying our  relationship with Paperny Films and talk daily about the adventures their shows have inspired us to have.  We are pleased to share some exciting opportunities that have come along for others to get involved with them as well.  Paperny is cast...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jul 1, 2011, 2:23 pm
A fine example of some brand storytelling that you can’t help but love: Happy Canada Day!
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Feb 23, 2011, 11:19 am
Storytelling excites us.  We have fun with it!  It’s how we get are kicks, and as such we are pretty pleased about our latest client, Paperny Films, as they are all about stories too and are telling some entertaining ones, from foodie adventures with true to life characters like Bob Blumer to th...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jan 4, 2011, 5:24 am
There are so many reasons why we adore and are proud of Richard Yearwood around here, but tonight it’s for his latest role as NISA Agent Benjamin N’udu in the new CBC Series InSecurity. Don’t miss the Premiere tonight (January 4th, 2011) at 8:30 pm on CBC, right after The Rick Mercer Report. ...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jan 3, 2011, 12:32 am
It wouldn’t be right to let the holidays pass without our annual tradition of a little bit of green, and since this year’s holiday activity was a little more slanted to relaxation, I thought we’d share a little music video our pals Mark Leiren-Young and Kevin Crofton of Local Anxiety made to r...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 30, 2010, 8:24 am
Dating back to the days of writing and creating our Kids Science and Environmental Show we started a holiday tradition at Ahimsa Media of sharing an activity that you could do with your loved ones or on your own.  Typically, this activity has had a green slant to it. While this year’s could stil...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 29, 2010, 2:15 am
At Ahimsa Media the winter holidays are all about relaxing and spending time laughing and having fun with the folks we love.  It is for this reason that Lori and I take a break from the pre-holiday craziness each year to laugh, be silly and shoot our holiday card together. Erica and Lori captured ...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 16, 2010, 12:56 pm
We are pleased to be ringing in the New Year with two new Interactive Storytelling Courses for Professionals at BCIT and Capilano University. Photo Courtesy of John Biehler The focus of both these courses are to inspire the participants to use digital tools, such as social media, to make your onli...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Nov 26, 2010, 9:19 pm
Back in the days when I was a children’s and educational writer for television and magazines and first exploring the digital sphere, I was incredibly fortunate to be welcomed into Vancouver’s technology scene and shown the lay of the land by a few of the early leaders in the space.  My guides a...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 20, 2010, 2:16 pm
Last week The Vancouver Sun‘s digital life writer Gillian Shaw approached Erica Hargreave to discuss the effect technology is having on literacy skills.  An issue often discussed in the Ahimsa Media office and, it would seem, many other offices too. Gillian’s article went to press on Saturday, ...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 13, 2010, 6:52 pm
Having been a classroom teacher, I understand what a demanding profession teaching can be and the need for quality support material for teachers and the classroom.  One particular source of frustration for me, as a teacher, was the unimaginative, rote learning materials that typically accompanied v...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 13, 2010, 10:17 am
It never fails, since my third birthday the autumn still means it time to head back into the classroom for me, some more conventional, some a little less so.  This is probably why in my mind the year runs from September to June and the new year starts for me afresh every September.  With a life lo...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 9, 2010, 8:12 pm
Ahimsa Media is comprised of a cast of interesting characters, so it isn’t a stretch for us to develop a new plethora of personalities – online characters that is.  Our inaugural lady was Emme Rogers, and since then character development has become a creative niche for us.  Amazing how it help...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 8, 2010, 12:06 am
Love any excuse to sing the praises of our team and I am most pleased that Liz Kearsley just gave us such an excuse. Liz has been selected to be one of Canada’s first Mob!lers!  Samsung Canada picked her and 29 other 20-somethings living in Canada to take part in a competition with their new And...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 7, 2010, 9:21 pm
As promised, please enjoy installment two of Liz Hover’s NSI interview with Erica Hargreave and Susan Brinton. Here, the conversation turns to the unknown elements of applying to a brand new funding stream and our project’s future should the application be successful. Erica also takes the time...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 7, 2010, 8:50 pm
The Ahimsa Media office began this summer abuzz with application preparations for The Canada Media Fund’s (CMF) first ever Experimental Funding Stream. As the printer fell silent, the regular working day returned and the waiting game began, our phone rang. Liz Hover, Digital Media Manager for th...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 7, 2010, 1:16 pm
When I was in high school, a friend and I got more than a little obsessed with making music videos. When I say this, I mean we’d mostly dress up and dance around lip-synching in front of her Macbook, recording ourselves into iMovie. Fast-forward a fews years later, and I’m a working musician, ma...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 2, 2010, 11:50 am
In July my knowledge of personalizing YouTube Channel pages went up by about 100 percent. Erica assigned Liz and I the task of creating and personalizing YT Channels for Ahimsa characters Shawnee and Shawn Rockett (of the Shaw Rocket Fund), and for Shea, Ahimsa’s teenage character online. I’d n...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jul 19, 2010, 1:24 pm
Erica presented Bronwyn, Liz and I with the project of creating a character for a blog for readers in their mid-teens. Being way out of my mid-teens, I found the task a bit daunting and wasn’t really sure I could create a narrative voice that sounded authentic and entertaining. Thankfully, I ...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jun 24, 2010, 2:05 pm
We our very pleased to announce that our family has grown!!!  We have a few new additions to add to the Hargreave / Yearwood team, on top of our wonderful crew of educational and tech based contractors. The first new addition to the family is Liz Kearsley, a photographer and journalist hailing fro...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jun 21, 2010, 2:40 pm
Saskatchewan Communcations Network (SCN) has always been close to our heart’s here at Ahimsa.  They (and Joanne McDonald) were the first to spot Erica Hargreave’s talents as a creative producer and aired our first educational series, The Magic Backpack.  Therefore, we have kept a kee...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jun 15, 2010, 5:38 pm
© Liz Kearsley 2010. Bronwyn Malloy on Spanish Banks, Vancouver. Shot for Ahimsa Media Many photographers have become fearful of the internet, in recent years.  It is a double edged sword, a great tool for getting our work seen by a wider audience, but it’s also hard to track images, copyr...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jun 14, 2010, 7:55 pm
Alyzee Lakhani on Spanish Banks beach, shot for Ahimsa Media. Caption accuracy and editing used to be the main tasks us photographers had to focus on following a shoot.  Today that has all changed.  With a multitude of platforms to display our photographs, most freelancers now have to get to grip...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - May 10, 2010, 4:06 pm
Here at Ahimsa we relish our diverse skillset and now our very own Erica Hargreave has helped us add a new string to our busy bow with the airing of her educational kids science TV show: The Magic Backpack episode The Greenhouse Effect. Whilst Ahimsa Media were co-producers, multi-tasker Erica had ...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Apr 23, 2010, 5:47 pm
Times are a changing in the Media World and we are highly excited by some of the most recent evolutions.   Particularly here in Canada where the new Canadian Media Fund (CMF) has been announced bringing in an experimental element. This is a perfect opportunity for members of the digital media comm...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Random Thoughts of an Ecclectic Mind - Feb 17, 2010, 5:08 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Random Thoughts of an Ecclectic Mind - Feb 16, 2010, 11:32 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Random Thoughts of an Ecclectic Mind - Feb 16, 2010, 2:00 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Bridging Media - Jan 6, 2010, 2:18 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Bridging Media - Jan 5, 2010, 8:29 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jan 2, 2010, 6:55 pm
Photo from The Hague’s Nationaal Archief I’m excited to be embarking on a new educational adventure this year! My new classroom will be in the Broadcast Communication Program at BCIT and the Continuing Studies Department at Capilano University.  At both schools I will be teaching Inter...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Jan 2, 2010, 6:55 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 20, 2009, 11:24 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 20, 2009, 11:24 pm
At Ahimsa, we have a tradition of sharing a yearly activity that can be enjoyed with friends and family, and you don’t have to be a kid to have fun with it. One of my favourite winter time activities is animal tracking, especially in the snow.  I love finding animal tracks, identifying them,...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 18, 2009, 11:53 am
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 18, 2009, 11:53 am
It’s been a year now since we pushed Emme Rogers out from behind her computer screen and out into the real world, and we are proud to see her flourishing in real life as well as cyberspace.  Like any proud parents, seeing your kid making their way in this world, and in this case, truly embrac...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Dec 1, 2009, 8:05 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Random Thoughts of an Ecclectic Mind - Oct 27, 2009, 1:18 pm
In honour of daylight savings time and an extra hour in bed, @rott1058’s retirement, and the fact that I still have not tried brunch at Gudrun’s and it looked rather scrumptious when I wandered by there the other day, we’re having a #BennyTweetup at Gudrun’s (@iheartgudrun) i...
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Random Thoughts of an Ecclectic Mind - Oct 27, 2009, 1:18 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Sep 1, 2009, 2:01 pm
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Erica Hargreave posted an article on Ahimsa Media - Aug 31, 2009, 12:42 pm
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