THIS WEEK IN TECTORIA

A community blog celebrating Victoria's booming tech sector

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Got a cool story about technology and creativity in Victoria? Email stories, tips, pictures, links and anything of interest to Tessa Bousfield at: tectoria@viatec.ca

SportstoNews

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: SportstoNews!

Local tech company, SendtoNews (STN), just launched SportstoNews.com, a full service sports page hosting service, giving publishers a rich and engaging golf news site, entirely automated, curated and monetized by STN.

SportstoNews.com provides publishers with a dedicated golf vertical site that is customized to their own site’s look and feel and is constantly updated with the latest content from STN’s video library as well as editorial articles. The page is made available free of charge to the publisher with their domain placed in the URL. STN monetizes the sites with a share going to the linking publisher.

This is an incredible addition to STN’s already impressive portfolio and we congratulate them on this accomplishment! Click here to read the full press release.

The Mustard Seed

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: The Mustard Seed! Plus, all our VIATEC Food Bank Challenge participants!

The Mustard Seed Street Church has been essential in fighting hunger and restoring faith to a large portion of people living in poverty, as well as the working poor, in greater Victoria since 1975. The Church ministries are nearly 100 percent community funded and include Vancouver Island’s largest Food Bank, a Family Center, Hospitality programs, and addictions recovery at Hope Farm Healing Centre as well as more traditional Church services.

The Mustard Seed positively impacts, on average 5,000 individuals per month, with more than 50 volunteers keeping things running everyday. However, their shelves have been very bare lately due to more assistance given in 2016 and donations being lower.

Well, in the past 4 weeks, 34 companies have come together for the VIATEC Food Bank Challenge to raise cash and non perishables for the Mustard Seed! Today from 12pm to 3pm, all the participants will drop off their remaining donations to the Mustard Seed for the final tally. If you have anything to donate, please swing by and say hi to the VIATEC team while you’re there OR donate from the comfort of your chair.

A HUGE thank you to all our participants. Winners will be announced soon and many families will have a wonderful holiday season as a result. Well done everyone!

2016 Participants:

  1. Avocette Technologies
  2. AXYS Technologies
  3. BDC
  4. Beanstream
  5. Carmanah Technologies Corp.
  6. Collect! Credit & Debt Collection software
  7. Codan Radio Communications
  8. Complia Health
  9. Crowd Content
  10. CUBE Global Storage
  11. Econics
  12. Flytographer
  13. Frankie’s Modern Diner
  14. FTS Forest Technology Systems
  15. GenoLogics
  16. GlobalWide Media
  17. HP Advanced Solutions
  18. IndyKey Rewards
  19. Latitude Geographics Group
  20. Monk Office
  21. MUSIC Group Innovation CA Inc.
  22. RevenueWire
  23. RingPartner
  24. Schneider Electric
  25. SendtoNews
  26. Smart Dolphins IT Solutions
  27. StarFish Medical
  28. Technology Guys IT Solutions
  29. Tourism Victoria
  30. Vecima Networks
  31. VIATEC & Ground Control Cafe
  32. Victoria Airport Authority
  33. Victoria Flying Club
  34. Vigil Health Solutions Inc.

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2016 VIATEC Food Bank Challenge participants!

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Our Tectorians of the Week are our challenge participants! (so far):
GlobalWide Media, RevenueWire, GenoLogics, Beanstream, RingPartner, Victoria Flying Club, Tourism Victoria, Carmanah Technologies Corp., Smart Dolphins IT Solutions, Victoria Airport Authority, HP Advanced Solutions, SendtoNews, CUBE Global Storage, FTS (Forest Technology Systems), StarFish Medical, AXYS Technologies and Flytographer!

These confident companies are the first to step up to the VIATEC Food Bank Challenge which runs from Nov 7th to Dec 2nd. There was no hesitation in signing up, and they’re all ready to come out on top with their cash and food donations for the Mustard Seed Food Bank!

There’s still time to sign up and be included in this list of amazing Victoria-based companies, boost your team morale and help us achieve our $100,000 goal!

Click here for all the details and contact engage@viatec.ca to accept the challenge.

#VIATECFoodBankChallenge

SendtoNews

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: SendtoNews!

Victoria-based SendtoNews announced this week a new syndication partnership with McClatchy, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States! The agreement will see the rollout of SendtoNews’ sports video content across McClatchy’s digital publishing operations, which reach vibrant communities ranging from Sacramento to Fort Worth to Miami.

SendtoNews is North America’s leading Sports Video Ad Platform serving an expanding publisher network of more than 1500 news properties. SendtoNews generates over 200 million monthly video views through the distribution of exclusive and semi-exclusive content from 75+ sports leagues, including the NBA, MLB, NFL, NASCAR, PGA Tour, NCAA and Premier League Soccer.

A HUGE congratulations to the SendtoNews team on this great achievement.

To read the full press release, click here.