SeaTech Connect: So Far So Fun

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We're two dates into a summer series of office crawls, organized by Brian Rauschenbach of Add3 and SIC. So far the hosts have gone all out, sprucing up their spaces and rallying with refreshments.

Even with this year's focus on more quality time through fewer spaces per event we're still finding ourselves running long at each location because we're having too much fun to leave. So of course each night runs way over. Fine with us.

Don't miss crawling with our #AAFPosse on the next one, June 25th in Pioneer Square.

And thanks to all the event participants so far, from the agencies to the crawlers, for making it so fun.

#AAFPosse Returns for Summer 2014

SeaTech Connect is back this summer with its series of agency crawls, and AAF Seattle is ready. We'll organize our own #AAFPosse for each of the six outings, giving our members, fans and interested parties a crew to crawl with.

This year there will be three agencies each night, ending at one bar, giving us all a chance to spend more time in each place with less running between agencies. That equals better networking, which is kind of the point.

Whether you join us from the start or catch up with us as we go, you can find us via our check-ins on Foursquare (which we'll mirror to Twitter using #AAFPosse). We'll be the group having a great time.

The first crawl is on Capitol Hill, May 14th, with others spread throughout the summer. We've got them all in our events calendar and in Foursquare lists, and we'll be promoting in advance via social, particularly our LinkedIn group.

New to AAF Seattle? Join in. It's a great way to get to know us!

RSVP and get more info on the SeaTech Connect Meetup page.

Women Work Wonders for AAF Seattle

On International Women's Day 2014 we want to recognize and thank all the women who have come together to make us what we are in this past year.

We've enjoyed so many great women panelists, including our 3% Conference–inspired Women in Creativity, an all-women panel on Cause Marketing, and, finally, women on our Chalk Talk Super Bowl Ad Replay panel (even more women than men!).

We've had so many women attend events, join as members, and support our cause.

And we've had women in charge, from our board, including our president, Renee Peterson, to committee members, to volunteers, all helping shape our identity and making things happen where it matters.

We aspire to recognize creativity and ideas inclusively and to be a truly balanced organization. Thanks to every one of you who has contributed so much!

Creative 12s: Super Bowl Edition

Just wow.

What a week leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII. And we thought the city was nuts for the NFC Championship! Our creatives kept their foot on the gas to such a degree we just had to make a sequel compilation. Great work, Creative 12s!

Check out how our creative community showed its 12th Man spirit on Storify!

Special thanks to thenewBlank for their cool modified Seahawks graphic that serves as the centerpiece of this collage.

We Are 12s: Seattle Creatives Support the Seahawks 2014 Playoff Run

206 is bringin' it!

The Seattle Seahawks are in the midst of what looks to be their best season ever. Seattle's creative professionals from agencies to brands are doing their part to show their team spirit as the city finds itself caught up in playoff fever.

Here's our Storify of Seattle's creative 12s in full-on Beast Mode!

How We Celebrated the 2013 Holiday Season

Crown Social gets animated

Agencies are well known for their ability to party, and the holidays are a great time to let loose after a year of accomplishments and hard work. Still many take the opportunity to reach out to help others in need, or just to wish everyone well.

We created this Storify compilation of social posts that show how our creative community celebrated the 2013 holidays.

Our Creative Town

Even though we're enmeshed in the professional goings-on in this fine town, we're still quite aware of how creative and interesting and special it truly is. We're surrounded by innovators and creators who work every day to make something worthy and notable that creates real value. Or at least they make stuff people will buy.

At AAF Seattle, we work to connect these people and to give them a voice. If we could sing a song about it we would. And we're not the only ones who care.

Inspired by the same community, We Make Seattle and Commercialize Seattle each seek to trumpet and promote our city's creative offerings. We Make Seattle just finished raising funds through Kickstarter to produce a film about Seattle's vibrant creative and start-up scene. And Commericalize Seattle, a joint effort between the City of Seattle's Office of Film + Music and Washington Filmworks, will let the rest of the country in on what a great place Seattle is to produce film and advertising work, all with our trademark quirky humor, with assists from local agencies Creature and World Famous.

We donated to We Make Seattle's Kickstarter, and we'll be at Spitfire to support Mayor McGinn's launch of Commercialize Seattle with an AAF Posse. This kind of thing is exactly what we're all about. We couldn't be more proud to be part of such great efforts to promote such great people.

Update

on 2013-08-29 21:09

Huge turnout for tonight's launch party. Mayor Mike McGinn kicked things off, followed by Amy Lillard from Washington Filmworks, then Jim Haven and Steve Cullen from Creature described the challenge and the executions, with Steve Madden from World Famous closing.

So how do you get involved? Register to be included in the reel, resource guide, and production incentive program. For more information check out the recap at Washington Filmworks or contact info@commercializeseattle.com.

Update on 2013-11-19 01:16

Wow, the effort continues: Who could ask for better visibility than a writeup in the New York Times about Commercialize Seattle!

Posse Up!

Over the course of the year we throw a lot of events, from Speaker Series to After Hours to the ADDY Awards and so on, but it turns out we also love going to events, and this little creative boom town is just full of meetups, parties and panels for every interest, broad and narrow.

We decided it would be fun to coordinate small groups from our own consituency to attend some of these great events held by other local organizations. Kind of a way to get people exposed to cool things, support our friends, and represent AAF Seattle while we're sharing some drinks and participating. And thus the AAF Posse was born.

We started with a small group attending the SeaTech Connect agency crawl on Capitol Hill in July. We've done more than a few outings since then, including the TechCrunch party, an AIGA event at Deloitte Digital, and another agency crawl in Pioneer Square. Attendance is fluid with people coming and going over the course of the evening and we always seem to pick up a few curious onlookers while we're at it.

We coordinate in advance through our LinkedIn group, then during the event through mobile updates via Foursquare, which we share to Twitter, as well as posts on Instagram that also broadcast to our social platforms, all using the #AAFPosse hashtag.

A huge part of what AAF Seattle is all about is connecting our community with creative opportunities, and AAF Posse has been a great way to bring that ideal to life.

Join our LinkedIn group to be part of the action!

Seattle Agency "Harlem Shake" Video Battle

It's a goofy meme that's caught the internet's attention and is already dying a quick death. But as the latest virtual shiny object, the Harlem Shake is momentarily fascinating, especially when local Seattle-area agencies post their own fancy, costumed moves.

We've noticed these agency videos also come with a healthy dose of pride. And agency pride leads to trash-talking. And trash-talking leads to competing agency Shake videos, which leads to VIDEO BATTLES!

So we thought it would be fun to promote a healthy competition via social media under the hashtag #AAFHarlemBattle and compile these videos and the tweets supporting them into a Storify page where everyone can decide for themself which agency has the best moves. We don't know how many entries we'll get before this burns itself out but it should be fun while it lasts.

Check out the current lineup.

If your team wants in on the action, just share your video or trash-talk on our Facebook wall, or tweet it with #AAFHarlemBattle, and we'll be sure to add it.