During her opening remarks at the Massive Technology Show in Vancouver yesterday, CEO Lindsay Smith announced that her company, Massive Events, would be merging with Blink Media Works. Blink is the company behind Get Connected TV and Radio hosted by Mike Agerbo & AJ Vickery and Smith joined them on air last year as a co-host.
Their plan is to join forces and deliver a one-stop-shop for small and medium sized business (SMBs) looking to learn more about technology. Massive's magazine, trade shows and networking events will become additional outlets for the Get Connected brand and help them reinforce their position as the source for technology information for SMBs.
Look for their new Get Connected magazine to grow in size and distribution (look out Backbone!) and for the Massive tradeshow to be rebranded after their upcoming Toronto event. Get Connected TV and Radio has been growing their viewership but these new outlets will allow them to reach an even larger audience offline. Sounds like a good fit.
For those of you that don't know, Smith was one of the original founders of Techvibes.com and spun off an event planning business one year before we incorporated Techvibes Media Inc. and purchased the site.
BTW... Season 3 of Get Connected launches on BNN tonight at 5:30pm.
Congratulations on what is sure to be a great merger and a new day for technology information! We have been fortunate enough to work with both Massive Events and Blink Media Works - and we look forward to continuing that great relationship.
Congrats again from all here at ii!
Any venture with Lindsay involved is bound to be successful. This is a great merger. Well done.
Agreed. Lindsay has this way of making everything go very smoothly and she's a great person to be around.
Congratulations on both the merger and the show Lindsay! It may have been on April 1st but it was no joke! The energy you and your team produced was palpable, at the show and then at the networking event.
like I've predicted before, you are going to make it big!
Congratulations to Lindsay and all involved. I love to see women in technology succeed and Lindsay is one who paves the way.
Congrats Lindsay! This seems like a very good strategic move and I'm looking forward to seeing Get Connected bring SMBs and technology together through various mediums. Canada needs more of it!
This crew doesn't get social media at all. Your blog was the only one to cover this news and Lindsay, Mike and/or AJ couldn't even be bothered to respond to the 6 positive comments here.
