AndrewKurjata.ca

About Me

I’m a communications and research professional living in Prince George, BC. For most of the week, I’m station manager of CFUR Radio. For the rest, I’m associate producer on the CBC morning show, Daybreak North. Here’s my resume.

Other Things

I volunteer in a few areas. For example, I’m communications director for the Coldsnap Music Festival, and a board member of PG Crimestoppers. I like pets. I help my girlfriend run the non-profit Ferrets North Information and Rescue Society. We even have some pets we rescued from China. On Sundays I play pick-up road hockey and on Wednesdays I’m in a dodgeball league. I also cross-country ski, play ultimate frisbee, and enjoy camping. Oh, and I created the Mr. PG fanpage, which has been featured in a museum, so that’s cool.

Background

I was born and raised in Prince George, where I attended the University of Northern British Columbia and received a joint major in Political Science and International Studies. I’ve been a mill worker, coffee shop hack, newspaper editor, BC government employee, marketing assistant, DJ, knife salesman, research assistant, & ESL teacher in Wuhan, China. I’m interested in communications, design, social media, music, politics, and the discussion thereof.

Connect

There are a few ways to get in touch with me. My primary email address is andrew [at] kurjata.ca, though if you want to contact me in a professional capacity, I’d appreciate it if you use stationmanager [at] cfur.ca or andrew.kurjata [at] cbc.ca. You can also find me on Facebook, Twitter, and, just for the heck of it, MySpace.

Around the Web

I like to play with different online tools. Here are a few I use:

Networking Like pretty much everyone, I have a Facebook and Twitter account. I keep my resume on LinkedIn, and I have a MySpace page just for the heck of it. Recently, I started using Foursquare, though it’s somewhat hard without a smartphone. Oh, and Google has a profile on pretty much everyone. Here’s mine.

Blogging

My blog is right here on this site. This is primarily for original work.

I also maintain a music blog called Almost Mainstream. You can visit it here, or you can listen to a playlist of the songs by clicking here.

I share stuff like links, photos, and videos on my Tumblr page.

Sharing

I share photos on Flickr. For music and playlist management, I use CBC Radio 3 Last.fm, and the Hype Machine.

I keep track of what I need to read on Instapaper and Google Reader, and I bookmark useful things on Delicious.

For commenting, I use Disqus and IntenseDebate.

Tools

I highly recommend Firefox, Shareaholic, and any combination of Hootsuite, CoTweet, and TweetDeck for quick shares of links and status updates. I use Blogger for my personal blog and WordPress for my site and both the Coldsnap and CFUR websites. For quick and simple set-up, though, you can’t beat Tumblr (I used it to make this pag and my music blog). Blogger is also a good option– it’s where I started and what I learned on. In terms of learning how to do all this stuff, you can ask me, and Mashable and Lifehacker are both excellent resources, as is a good old-fashioned Google search.

Lifestream

Mostly for experimental reasons, I constructed a lifestream that aggregates all of my online activity. I made it using Yahoo Pipes, which has lots of interesting uses. You can see my lifestream, for one-stop stalking, right here. This is no longer the case, though it still exists. You can email me if you’re looking to make a pipes version of your own RSS feeds.

Copyright

For copyright information,  see here.