Earlier this week Chris Briekss of 6S Marketing launched his list of “Top Twitterers In Vancouver” and within a few hours I was chatting with Gillian Shaw of The Vancouver Sun. As a result, the list was published in yesterday’s paper and sixty4media got a nice shout out.

TOP TWITTERERS IN VANCOUVER
1. http://twitter.com/miss604 — Rebecca Bollwit is a Vancouver blogger and specialist in new media and senior partner in sixty4media.com
2. http://twitter.com/buzzbishop
3. http://twitter.com/hummingbird604
4. http://twitter.com/todmaffin
5. http://twitter.com/techvibes
6. http://twitter.com/dbarefoot
7. http://twitter.com/kk
8. http://twitter.com/wilhelmus
9. http://twitter.com/ColleenCoplick
10. http://twitter.com/tyfn … (Read the rest in the Vancouver Sun)

Rebecca Bollwitt, Miss604 on Twitter, senior partner at 64Media.com sixty4media.com and Twitter veteran, is also on the Top 20 list. “It started out for me just being personal update, like your Facebook status but not on Facebook,” Bollwitt said. “For me personally, it turned into more of a marketing tool for my company… …Once I got on I just started seeing who other people were following and seeing who was adding who. It creates this huge global chain of information-sharing.

It’s always fun to see your company name in the “Business” section of the largest paper in the city. If you’d like to add sixty4media on Twitter you can find us @sixty4media.

sixty4media’s Rebecca Bollwitt is one of the web’s 20 most-visible individuals in Vancouver

This afternoon I discovered that NowPublic, along with the Vancouver Sun, issued a list of “the web’s 20 most-visible individuals in Vancouver.” I am very pleased to announce that I have come in at number 8, which is great news for sixty4media.

Here is the full list of web influencers from NowPublic and the Vancouver Sun (see also: GlobalTV)

1 Darren Barefoot
2 Tim Bray
3 Boris Mann
4 Kris Krug
5 Roland Tanglao
6 Tom Williams
7 Megan Cole
8 Rebecca Bollwitt
9 Arieanna Schweber
10 Tod Maffin
11 Dick Hardt
12 Tris Hussey
13 Alf Hermida
14 Matthew Good
15 Ian Andrew Bell
16 Travis Smith
17 Danny Robinson
18 Paul Sullivan
19 David Beers
20 David Eby

I would like to congratulate the others on the list, whom I admire very much and many of which have all supported sixty4media in their own way over the last year.

I would also like to mention the lovely, brilliant, and talented Megan Cole and Arieanna Schweber who put Vancouver’s women on the map every day with their content production and influence in the digital realm.

As we have been slowly molding sixty4media into shape, we have recently made our very own Twitter account open and available to the public.

Twitter is a popular social media site that combines micro-blogging and instant messaging to an international phenomenon of letting people know what you’re doing. Sounds insignificant to some, but there are more ways to use it other than telling people that you’re hungry or doing the laundry.

For instance, we use a great plugin for WordPress called WordTwit. This was made by our good friend Duane at BraveNewCode, and the whole purpose of it is to make an update to your Twitter account when you publish a new post on your WordPress site. Combined with any other updates we do on the account, you can get the latest news from our site as we publish it.

In the age of iPhones and Blackberries, what better way to connect to your audience directly?

Bryan Tasaka from Mind Over Mountain Adventure Racing (MOMAR) contacted us a while ago about what it would take to get a WordPress blog integrated into an increasingly successful site for their outdoor racing events.

At the time, there was a blog page on the site however being hard-coded in HTML it lacked core blogging elements. Bryan realized a long time ago the effect a change of this calibre could have, but struggled to find something that would coordinate with his main site in terms of function and design. The goal was to integrate a fully functioning WordPress blog that would seamlessly provide more function and interactivity for readers.

When Bryan contacted us, he knew that he wanted to go with a WordPress install on the back end of his site. We did our best to not only give him the tools to easily update his site, but the custom theme we built for the WordPress blog slipped in smoothly among the main site infrastructure. The custom theme was enhanced with social media tools yet we preserved the existing Flash header as requested as it was a crucial part of creating fluidity with the rest of the MOMAR site.

Working with Bryan was a pleasure and he is very excited to begin using his new WordPress blog. We are proud that we could bring in additional functions for his site that are going to help him promote his organization, increase community, and be search engine optimized for potential, new, and existing audiences.

With the integrated blog, Bryan’s publishing productivity has been increased dramatically compared to the time it used to take to custom code each entry on the previous design. Our custom WordPress theme and install allows him to produce and publish content on the fly, from any location, and communicate with his audience while expanding his reach into and beyond the adventure racing community.

It was a lot of fun to design this site, and I know as John is a bit of a trail runner he was amazed at the level of commitment these MOMAR folks have when it comes to adventure racing. We think the work we did for them will only help make that community stronger. After all, you never know who might stumble onto his blog from a Google search and make the trek for one of the events from another continent.

Feel free to visit the MOMAR blog and see our work in action.

There’s a lot to do when it comes to getting a site together, up, and running, so hang tight as we get all of the corners tucked in to really have this thing make sense as to who, what, and why we are what we are.

In the end, we hope to offer our services to anyone who is interested in knowing more about what we know about.  Social media, blogging, podcasting, and all other things related to the internet, we understand that there are people out there that want to know more about these things.  That’s what we aim to be here for.

If you would like to know more, please send us a note on the contact page.