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May 22, 2008 coinciding with the International Business & Technology Summit in Beijing China the BC Canada Pavilion Grand Opening took place in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. goodboog was pleased to be part of the delegation of which attended the opening.

Global News covers the story below:

Images below are of the BC Canada Pavilion and depict BC Premier Gordon Campbell signing his name on the glass plaque in addition to goodboog’s Chief Executive Officer Milan Hucko, Chief Technology Officer Gwyn Pritchett, and Chief Marketing Officer Michael-James Pennie:

Images Below depict goodboog’s Chief Executive Officer Milan Hucko, Chief Technology Officer Gwyn Pritchett, and Chief Marketing Officer Michael-James Pennie with the Chinese Olympic Committee Vice President Tu Mingde, British Columbia’s Minister of Economic Development, and Minister Responsible for the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the 2010 Winter Olympics Colin Hansen, President of the Justice Institute of BC Jack McGee, and the President of the Canada-Asia-Pacific Rim Alliances Paul Stinson:

The BC Canada Pavilion will serve as an introduction to business, tourism and industry highlights in British Columbia, Canada. Exhibits are characterized as a journey to a land of pristine beauty, multicultural communities, rich natural resources and innovation in business. Additionally, it provides a flexible business and meeting center, open between May and September 2008, where government and private industry representatives from China and Canada can liaise to explore business opportunities and cultural exchange. goodboog is pleased to have attended the grand opening and utilize the business space provided.

goodboog was pleased to attend the International Business & Technology Summit in Beijing which happened to fall on the week of the grand opening of the BC Canadian Pavilion in Tiananmen Square.

The first day kicked off May 20th, 2008 with goodboog Chief Marketing Officer Michael-James Pennie presenting to a packed BC Canada Pavilion of over 120 delegates consisting of both government, private, and public sector companies from both China and Canada in the audience.

All in all, a lot of buzz was created around the event and goodboog generated a very positive reception in creating many opportunities that are now being discussed further.

goodboog lends a personal thank you to the British Columbia Technology Industry Association and the British Columbia Ministry of Economic Development for making this event happen.

On May 8th, 2008 goodboog attended the reception for the delegates heading off to the British Columbia trade mission to China.

The event served as a warm introductory event for all attendees on the China mission and for everyone to network and familiarize with each other.

Notable speakers included:

• Pascal Spothelfer, CEO of the British Columbia Technology Industry Association
• Henry K.S. Lee, Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade
• Don Avision, President of the University Presidents’ Council of British Columbia
• Douglas MacLeod, Executive Director of the Okanagan Science & Technology Council
• Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia

With CEO Milan Hucko, CTO Gwyn Pritchett, and CMO Michael-James Pennie in Beijing, goodboog joins the people of China in the mourning of those who lost their lives in the earthquake May 12, 2008.

goodboog would also like to honor those who have given their dedication to rescuing the remaining people still trapped.

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Post goodboog’s presence at the Beijing Technology Summit May 19-24, 2008, goodboog will be spending a week in Shanghai meeting with local headquartered portal sites, web based application developers, and marketing firms who wish to get involved with goodboog on a local Chinese level. This is in addition to meeting with potentials for a local exclusive territorial Chinese marketing partnership, as talks are currently in discussion with some large ISP players.

Furthermore, goodboog will be attending the Baidu World Conference for all Baidu search marketing partners to attend. This will facilitate further connections to be made and create that much more exposure for Chinese firms and global firms wishing to break in to China in working directly with Baidu - China’s most used search engine, just in front of Google.

If you are located or have operations in Shanghai and would like to set up a meeting, please contact us via info@goodboog.com.

We are pleased to announce that goodboog will be attending the Beijing Technology Summit in conjunction with the opening of the Canadian Olympic Pavilion in Tiananmen Square, which will provide a gateway to the Canadian business market prior to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Representatives of goodboog will include Chief Executive Officer Milan Hucko, Chief Marketing Officer Michael-James Pennie, and Chief Technology Officer Gwyn Pritchett.

From this event goodboog hopes to create further higher level business and government awareness for the platform. More importantly, goodboog seeks to align itself with a Chinese exclusive territorial marketing partner in addition to partnerships with Chinese software and web based application firms for the potential to integrate with the goodboog platform. This ties directly in with our model of providing the leading global business tools all within the simple and easy to use platform that goodboog provides.

If you are or are planning to be in Beijing between May 19-24, 2008 and would like pre-authorization to attend the Canadian Pavilion please contact info@goodboog.com.

Gwyn Pritchett CTO of goodboog & Vaclav Klaus President of Czech Republic
Originally uploaded by michaeljamespennie

goodboog is pleased to announce the opening of our new European offices in Prague Czech Republic. Our newly relocated Central European presence will serve as the technical support, internal development, and marketing headquarters for Europe.

We are also pleased it coincides with the newly elected president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus making his return to office, whom Gwyn Pritchett, Chief Technology Officer of goodboog, has met with and has direct ties to.

April 1st goodboog came in full force at the Massive Technology Show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, donning orange polo shirts (provided by our goodboog Client Promo Sapien) and handing out Mandarin oranges accompanying the goodboog information packages. Overall, goodboog received a very strong reception from attendees on all levels – small business owners, executives of large public & private sector corporations, right down to individuals in the technology industry such as designers, programmers, system architects, and consultants.

Many new connections were made with media publications, global business consultants, and boards of trades from around the globe.
Overall it was a highly successful event for goodboog and we are looking forward to returning next year.

March 25th goodboog held its first product focus group of the and networking event of the quarter in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We are very pleased to announce the success of this event and are grateful to all those who attended and all the new business connections that were made, in addition to the valuable feedback we were able to receive for our presentation.

Notable faces included:

Arnold Leung with Appnovation Technologies

Sean Stiller & Kevin Bond with Armada Design

Jeremy Costin Technology Lawyer and involved with Tazzu Business Community

Rob de Leeuw & Bryce McLaughlin with TheIndieFilmScene.com

Anthony Taylor with Tayor Made Marketing

Nelson Guedes with Energy Accounting

Fraser Alexander with the Anthony Robbins Group

I’m happy to announce that if you love goodboog and would love to get more actively involved in the future of online business development and social networking for business then I encourage you to join the goodboog Global Social Networking for Business facebook group.

Furthermore, if you wish to become a fan, you can join the goodboog Global Virtual Catalog profile page.

We appreciate your support in these early stages of development and we are looking forward to further bringing as much value possible in creating business opportunities for people and businesses worldwide! We love to hear your feedback, feel free to post in the discussion boards or contact myself (Michael-James Pennie) personally.

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