Category Archives: World Kayak News

Great new Effort.tv video by Spencer done for new kayakers… gear

May 26, 2008 – 8:03 am

Spencer Cooke of Effort.tv has done us a great service once again.  Spencer is a long time buddy of Colin’s and when asked to help out with some education style vids, he was quick to respond… a full review / nutshell on gear… check it out http://effort.tv/2008/vid/whitewaterkayakingfor_rookies.mov
We’ll be putting a library of these videos up shortly [...]

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WK Hometown Throwdowns first BIG weekend… find a fun event near you… and come out to play!

April 3, 2008 – 7:21 am

World Kayak’s Hometown Throwdowns are aimed at bringing the FUN back into friendly competition.  Prizes for participation, not scores, friendly rivalry, learn new skills, points for front surfs!  Come join us.  Register here… http://worldkayakblogs.com/throwdown/register/ … we have 63 events going up in 13 regions across N. America!

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New blogging tools: themes and extensive photo gallery tools … Why use Blogger?

December 13, 2007 – 8:49 am

When considering your next project, trip or program launch, please consider worldkayakblogs.com!  With the introduction of our new templates, bloggers are now able to set up full web sites in the design of their choice.  WK will be uploading 10 new templates per week for you to choose from under the Presentation/Themes administration.  These themes allow [...]

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Phase 2 Starts Today, November 6th!

November 6, 2007 – 1:07 pm

Hey all,
World Kayak is very excited to announce that we are flicking the switch on a second phase of development for the blogspot as of this morning. This first site was a pretty quick and dirty beta launch, little marketing (1 day) and just a bit of maintenance. We have hired Luke Poland [...]

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In transition…

August 28, 2007 – 7:44 pm

The World Kayak Triumverate of web sites has been launched for just over two months ago.  We are already expanding rapidly in regards to both posting activity and traffic.  As some may know, this site and the two others  worldkayak.com, /wiki) are the beginning of an initiative that hopes to increase our sport’s exposure and [...]

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Bast@#d SPAMMERS hit WorldKayak blogs… but we’ve got a plan…

July 8, 2007 – 9:51 am

Yup.  We had hoped the automated SPAM bots would have found us a bit later, but they found us earlier.  We, as a result have apparent interest in Viagra, some political efforts and a certain family in Aruba in need of financing. 
We will be implementing changes to avoid these intrusions early next week.
In the meantime, [...]

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Bloggers - get us your addresses - 1st 300 will receive AW membership, and we will have an award program each month!

June 27, 2007 – 11:57 am

Folks,
We have added the ability to post in your address information.  Our current program is a kind donation of 300 AW memberships for the first bloggers we have.  We are at just under 300 now, so all of you reading this have won one.  So… er… I need to mail it somewhere. 
Please go to your [...]

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New International categories

June 27, 2007 – 11:35 am

Hey all, 
Just thought I would let you know that we have added a whole wack of new international regions to both the registration screen and the categories.  These are important as they will automatically post your blogs to the proper region and group us in distinct communities.  Makes it easier for visitors to simply click [...]

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Wow… 277 bloggers in 3 days!

June 25, 2007 – 9:12 am

Ok.  My first few posts were in efforts to get some content up and going.  I have long lived by the credo “content is king” and worry endlessly that any of my client’s sites go up without content.  Well.  3 days into the true launch of the World Kayak initiative, we have just under 300 [...]

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