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NetSquared Camp 2012

What is NetSquared Camp?

NetSquared Camp is a daylong unconference put on by the friendly folks that host the monthly Net Tuesday meetups in Vancouver.  Net Tuesday brings together social media users and web innovators with social change makers and nonprofits to swap stories, mix ideas, and build new relationships.  The aim is to empower non-profits with emerging tools, trends, and best-practices, allowing them to fulfill their mission statements in new and innovative ways.

The first NetSquared Camp had over 160 people in attendance.  The space at this event is limited to 80, so register early.

Who should come?

  • Non-profit people: learn more about utilizing technology to further your cause.
  • Web developers and social media people: share your best practices and find organizations that need your help.
  • Marketing people: assist non-profits in building strategic connections between their causes and their audiences.

Topics

This is an unconference, so you decide what want you want to discuss, share, explore, and learn.  Topics that Net Tuesday has covered over the last year include:

  • Should your nonprofit be selling merchandise?
  • Applications of location-based technology services
  • Managing volunteers with software and soft skills
  • How nonprofits win with word-of-mouth marketing
  • Redesigning your website: what you need to know
  • Flexing Facebook’s civic muscles
  • Delivering services through e-Learning
  • Google Analytics
  • Network organizations create better online campaigns

When, Where, and How Much?

NetSquared Camp 2012 will be held at The HiVE in downtown Vancouver, on Saturday, April 28 2012.  Early bird tickets cost $20; regular tickets are $25.  Register now on Eventbrite!

A video taste of the 2010 NetSquared Camp

Digital Democracy Chat with Chris Quigley of Delib

Net Tuesday pal and guest speaker Susanna Haas Lyons is organizing this cool-looking event for March 1 2012. Unfortunately I’ll be out of town, but don’t let that stop you from checking this out!

– Eli

Digital Democracy Chat with Chris Quigley, Delib

when: Thursday, 1 March 2012 from 2:30 to 4:00pm
where: Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, Room 1600 (main floor), 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
register: http://delibvancouver.eventbrite.ca/

How are digital tools being used to connect more people more directly to decision-making processes?

Join this special event to hear from digital democracy pioneer Chris Quigley, Co-Founder of Delib, a UK-based online engagement firm with experience working with governments in Canada, the United States, Australia and United Kingdom.

http://www.delib.net

Chris will present about Delib’s online engagement tools, big ideas and big vision to improve government. We’ll then open up the discussion to share views, ideas and experiences.

This event is brought to you by Susanna Haas Lyons and Simon Fraser University’s Community Education Program, which offers the Certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement.

Google for Nonprofits Seminar

Vancouver’s Rhino Cloud Computing will be hosting a Google for Nonprofits Seminar March 1.

Want to get your nonprofit on the cloud? The seminar will cover free and low-cost solutions to get your organization online.
They’ll be covering Google Apps (gmail, docs and more, Google Adwords grants, Google Plus and Google Earth.

Discount: use the promotional code “nettuesday” for 50% off.

Register at http://googlefornonprofits2012.eventbrite.com/

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Google for Nonprofits Seminar

Thursday, 1 March 2012 from 08:30 to 14:00 (PT)
Vancouver, British Columbia

We will be going through

  • Setting up your nonprofit with Google Apps.
  • Using Gmail
  • Getting on Google Grants in Canada which allows you to spend $10,000 a month on Google Adwords for free.
  • Google+ pages and how to use them
  • Google Earth
  • And our product Rhino Donations, which is a free donation management tool that integrates in with Google’s products.
  • learned (lunch is included in price).

http://googlefornonprofits2012.eventbrite.com/

Use the promotional code “nettuesday” coupon for 50% off.

Nonprofit Salesforce User Group survey

Hi current or future Nonprofit Salesforce User Group members,

What do you want to get out of the gatherings? Please let me know by filling out the six question survey below.

Also, the user group will be moving off meetup.com in favor of a new system provided by the Salesforce Foundation. New members can sign up at http://www.nettuesday.ca/salesforce-user-group/

NetSquared Camp 2012: April 28 at The HiVE

NetSquared logoNet Tuesday is excited to announce NetSquared Camp 2012, an intimate gathering of Vancouver’s online campaigners. This unconference will be a chance for our community to gather and share our hard-won best practices, war stories, and victories!

The event will be held at The Hive on Saturday, April 28 and admission is $20.

There are just 80 spots available, so please RSVP soon to ensure you get a ticket.

Tickets and more information: http://netsquared2012.eventbrite.ca/

Hope to see you there!

NetSquared Camp 2012 – date conflict?

NetSquared Camp logoUPDATE

NetSquared Camp 2012 will be held on April 28.

More information: http://netsquared2012.eventbrite.ca/

 

I’d like to do another NetSquared Camp/unconference this spring. It’ll be fun and another way to connect the nonprofit community in Vancouver.

The Hive has offered to be our venue. Yay!

They currently have the following three Saturdays free:

I’ve googled those dates and don’t immediately see any conflicting events… but did I miss something?

Please let me know in the comments if any of these dates are at the same time as another event with a similar audience of nonprofits, online technology folks and marketers.

Oh, and my preferred date is March 31 2012.

What is NetSquared Camp?

This video offers a good summary of the last event.

Meetup: Salesforce nonprofit user group – data imports, email integrations & more

 

Please join us at the third Vancouver Salesforce nonprofit user group meeting.

This will be an informal gathering of nonprofit employees, volunteers and allies who are either working with Salesforce or just interested in learning more.

A rough plan for the night

  • help beginners with their first import of data into Salesforce (bring your spreadsheets and laptops!)
  • discuss email integrations with Salesforce from the App Exchange.  (Homework – Groundwire’s email service provider review.
  • put our collective brains to whatever challenges the group presents.

Snacks will be provided courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation.

Register for Salesforce nonprofit user group - data imports, email integrations & more in Vancouver, British Columbia on Eventbrite

Date and location
Monday, January 30 2012
5:30 – 7:30pm
The HiVE
210 – 128 W Hastings St
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1G8

Meetup: Network organizations create better online campaigns

Net Tuesday is proud to have Communicopia’s Jason Mogus presenting at our February 7 meetup. NOTE: We expect this event to be very popular, so registration is capped. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

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There has been a sea change recently creating new models for how social change organizations (or start up businesses) structure themselves to accomplish a social good. Network organizations, typically those “born after the Internet”, are smaller, nimble, less hierarchical, highly collaborative and deeply social by nature. Their leadership, culture, structure, programs, and outcomes are often quite different from those of traditionally structured NGO’s.

As these structures are more aligned with the fundamental organizing principles of the web, done right this enables these organizations to punch far above their weight online. In this session we will discuss:

  • the differences between network orgs and more traditional NGO’s
  • why network orgs are an adaptation to the unique challenges and opportunities of our times
  • why traditional NGO’s struggle with managing digital innovation
  • why network orgs create better online campaigns – including many examples!
  • some fundamental principles of network centric campaigns

Jason Mogus photo

Come with your own examples and expect a fulsome discussion on the benefits and limitations of this controversial hypothesis.

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LOCATION
W2 Media Cafe
111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Doors at 5:30 PM
Starts at 6:00 PM
Wraps at 7:30 PM

Jason Mogus is the principal strategist of Communicopia, a Gastown based firm that has been leading transformative digital projects for social change institutions since 1993. Jason has worked with some highly successful network orgs, including the TckTckTck climate coalition, Nothing But Nets campaign, and Web of Change, as well as for many large NGO’s, governments, and sustainable businesses both locally and globally. For a full bio: http://communicopia.com/company/jason-mogus

Suggested background reading:

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FREE Webinar Series for Charities in Canada

Our pals at PeerGiving ideas are presenting a series of free webinars to help you kickstart the new year. And they’re just 30 minutes each. Efficient!

March 6 – May 1 2012

Community Management  101
Online Training for Charities & Non-Profits
Story Telling, Social Media and Creative Fundraising Campaigns

Series Overview
Do you want to know how to implement online story telling, build your social media presence and inject creativity into your fundraising campaigns?

We want to let you know about am upcoming webinar series from Peer Giving. Their weekly “Training 101” series provides resources and discussion on building strategy, using analytics, utilizing social media campaigns and more.

Peer Giving is a thought leader on the web and the non-profit world. They work directly with charities to develop fundraising platforms and strategies.Every week for 8 weeks Peer Giving’s Communications Team provides a live 25-minute webinar. The webinars are designed to provide you with ideas on how to incorporate the latest free technology that’s available for your charity to raise more support.

Topics covered include:

  • Intro to Community Management
  • Savvy Social Media
  • Composing E-Letters
  • Making Quick Videos
  • Using Google Analytics
  • The Ask
  • Learning from Traditional Fundraising
  • Building A Strategy

Past guest facilitators have included such communications experts as Erin Bury from Sprouter and Merry McCarron from “charity:water”.

To take part in these FREE seminars:

Reserve your spot by registering here
To receive Peer Giving’s weekly newsletter called the Penguin Report, sign up here.

All sessions begin at 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST and include Q&A, polls and resources to take away to share with your staff.
For more information visit:
PeerGiving.com
@peergiving
Facebook.com/peergiving

Net Tuesday January 10: Google Analytics on a non-profit website – making sense of your data with segmentation

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Could you do more with Google Analytics? Non-profit website publisher Jeannine Mitchell shows how she got a new perspective on raw data from the Google Analytics module installed on her (Drupal CMS) website after local web analytics expert Behdad showed her how to create custom measurements known as ‘segmentation’. Behdad will be present to field people’s questions about web analytics.

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When

Tuesday, January 10 2012

DOORS AT 5:30 PM

EVENT STARTS AT 6:00 PM

WRAP AT 7:30 PM

Where

W2 Media Cafe

Admission

Free, with $5 suggested donation.

Presenters
Jeannine Mitchell, an award-winning finance writer, heads the non-profit Student Finance 101 Society, helping students manage student loans and other debt at www.debt101.ca

Behdad Barati
A well rounded IT expert, Behdad has been involved in Web Analytics for close to four years.
Behdad is also the organizer of the Web Analytics Champs meetup. http://www.meetup.com/Web-Analytics-Champs-WACH/

OUR SPONSOR

W2 Media Cafe

 

Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2011-12 season.

They do cool things. Check them out!