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Jasmin Willson has taken on the task of producing this season's Roxy winter video podcasts. We caught up with to find out how they get put together. How did you end up taking on the Roxy podcasts? When the last producer Josie left to take the job as Volcom Girl Team Manager I slipped into it her spot!

It must have been a busy week in Portland as both Bonfire and Holden have launched their new websites. Loaded with rich content and video both sites are more of an experience than just a website.

Holden features cute little videos of their staff doing things like dorking around on a snowboard indoors or knitting. They also have brilliantly integrated videos of all their product being model. So you can really see how it looks on person!

http://holdenouterwear.com

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Bonfire's new site has a unique video background. It's also got a neat filtering system that helps you narrow down their products.

http://bonfiresnowboarding.com

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What went down in the snowboarding world this week?

686 has just launched their 2010-2011 website at http://www.686.com. The new website has videos, blogs, and tons of info on their gear. They've added a product video for every piece of outerwear! So now you can learn more about the product and see it on a real person.

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A live scoring system may not sound so exciting because really aren't they all live? But Snowboard Live Scoring System (SLS) that was used at the Burton New Zealand Open may totally change the future of snowboarding. 

Three years ago, while living in Utah, I had the chance to meet Krista Moroge. As the owner of a very successful sales rep agency and a true ripper, she was someone many women in snowboarding could look up to. So I asked Krista if I could interview her for our Jobs for the Girls series.

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While perusing online publication Plastics News  (you mean you don't read it??) I found a report that Burton Snowboards is moving producton of its premium snowboards from the US to Austria.The company is shutting the Burton Manufacturing Center in South Burlington, Vermont in June and moving production to Austria - where it ha

You might have seen in the news in the last week that Snowsports GB (SSGB), the national governing body for skiing and snowboarding in the UK, has gone into administration.As a result, the British Snowboard Association (BSA) has been resurrected to give direction to the sport.

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