Well, it’s halfway through the month and it’s time you showed off your progress in person! Join us at Dip Your Upper Lip and tell us about your man-scaping plans. Our wonderful friends at The Diamond (6 Powell Street at the corner of Powell & Carrall in Gastown) will conjure up cocktails and canapes from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Thursday, November 19th.  Plenty of inspiration and official Mo’ swag will be circling. And Momositas, the men need your support. Come enjoy an extra frothy cocktail and dress that upper lip!

Not sure how to style your mo’? Event partner Dermalogica will be on hand to provide “shave-mapping” consultations, mini-treatments, and other goodies.

Memelabs has been enlisted by the Movember Foundation to help raise awareness for the cause by hosting the global Movember video contest, which you can read more about in the Vancouver Sun. It’s time to reinstate an under-appreciated facial accessory to its rightful position of glory. Accordingly, we’ll be floating around the room, cameras in hand, documenting your mo’ progress and mo’ stories.

RSVP HERE: Vancouver Tweet Up

We look forward to seeing you on the 19th. Don’t forget to share your Mo’ videos at http://memelabs.com/movember!

Vancouver’s first annual blogathon for charity is set to start 10 pm Friday, July 26 and will finish 9 pm Sunday, July 28. There are three shifts that blogs could sign up for and Invoke – memelabs parent company – has signed up for the Sunshine Shift – 10 pm Friday to 10 pm Saturday. This may be the first Vancouver specific blogathon, but it flows from a long tradition of blogathons. When the people who organized the previous blogathons could not organize it this year, Rebecca – Miss604 – stepped in and organized this years event.

Last year, Vancouver was represented by Rebecca and Raul, but Vancouver has really stepped up to the plate this year and as of the time I wrote this post, there are 13 Vancouver bloggers signed up - check out the list. There is still a week to sign up and I highly encourage all the Vancouver bloggers that haven’t signed up yet to do so.

A blogathon is a 24-hour period when you write a blog post every 30 minutes for a good cause. Yes, you read that right – we will be posting 48 blog posts! I’ve put the word out here and our team members have really stepped up to the plate – yes 48 posts from me may have gotten a bit boring. Thus far, Nadia Nascimento, David Tedman, Dario Meli, Ryan Holmes, Andre Liem, Murat Ayfer, James Wilson, and our very own bacon chocolate chip cookie baking Zuri Scrivens have volunteered to write at least one post. This list will most likely grow as the actual date grows closer.

Invoke has set a fund raising goal of $3000 for the blogathon. If you would like to support our efforts – which we would greatly appreciate – you can make a donation to the cause here (the page will be going live later today). Invoke has chosen a charity that is very close to our hearts The Lochmaddy Foundation. Invoke is connected to this charity through Dario Meli and David Tedman who sit on the board. Through the Lochmaddy Foundation, all donations will be directed to a community in Mali, West Africa. Families in N’Gouraba are working hard to improve their lives and the lives of their children through a special agricultural project. Your donation will empower and enable them to realize increased crops, more family income with new opportunities and a brighter future.

We are collecting donations through Plan Canada who are our partner on the ground there. I would like to thank them and specifically Heather for all of their hard work in helping Invoke bring this all together.