The Digital Nonprofit – a project of TechSoup Connect Canada
Events and community for nonprofits curious about technology.
The February Net Tuesday was epic! We were forced to upgrade our venue because we sold out twice, and then we had our founder Joe Solomon make a last-minute appearance from San Francisco.
Huge thanks to Jason Mogus (Communicopia) for presenting his thoughts on an alternative model for building movement organizations, and to guest stars Joe Solomon (vagabond!) and Reilly Yeo (OpenMedia.ca) for their stories.
Our social media volunteer Kelvin Claveria did a twitter recap using storify.
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/
Google for Nonprofits SeminarThursday, 1 March 2012 from 08:30 to 14:00 (PT)
Vancouver, British Columbia
We will be going through
http://googlefornonprofits2012.eventbrite.com/
Use the promotional code “nettuesday” coupon for 50% off.
Young? Care about things? Here’s some events of interest!
The BC Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship wants to get younger social entrepreneurs and innovators involved in their recommendations to the BC government.
A Lightning Pitch Event on March 6th will feature 90 second pitches from some of the most exciting initiatives from under 30’s in BC (and cash prizes!), and provide ample opportunity to network with emerging and established social change leaders, including members of the Council.
On March 10th we’re hosting a follow-up Speak Up!mini-conference for youth and youth serving organizations to generate more specific recommendations and feedback based on the Advisory Councils draft report (see below).
Information and registration links here:
Lightening Pitch Event (March 6th – $10)
Speak Up! (mini-conference) (March 10th – free)
Your Feedback is Needed – The BC Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship is about to present recommendations to the BC government on advancing social innovation in the province, and wants to hear from young social innovators before they finalize their report. Their draft report can be found here.
Please share your thoughts at the following link:http://bit.ly/wIp27x
I’m 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!
Net 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!
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
Snacks will be provided courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation.
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.
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:
Come with your own examples and expect a fulsome discussion on the benefits and limitations of this controversial hypothesis.
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:
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.
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.caBehdad 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
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!
Here’s Susanna Haas Lyon‘s slides and video from the November 2011 Net Tuesday.
Slides
Flexing Facebook’s Civic Muscles [slideshare id=10028595&w=425&h=355&sc=no]
Presentation
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msFluFfnk84?rel=0]
Q&A
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdwQ_j1KdY?rel=0]
It’s not just your Communications and Fundraising teams that should be leveraging online tools. Many non-profits are looking at new ways to use technology to fulfill their mission, including the delivery of programs through technology. Just as many universities have focused on e-Learning to deliver education to students, non-profits organizations can also utilize e-Learning to deliver association services.
This session will share tools and techniques that can be used to deliver non-profit services online. Looking beyond facebook and twitter, this session will cover both synchronous (webinar) solutions as well as asynchronous tools that are available. There will be a focus on sharing best practices, lessons learned from the education sector, and how your non-profit can get started with e-Learning to deliver association services.
When
Tuesday, December 6 2011
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.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Chad Leaman is the e-Learning Manager for the Neil Squire Society, working directly with people with disabilities and empowering them through technology. Over the last eight years, he has led the organization’s growth of online learning and connecting the association to various rural and aboriginal disability centers. He has spoken at numerous conferences on themes of e-Learning and accessibility, including the Innovative Professor Conference, MoodleMoot, and the Justice Institute Online Course Showcase. His current projects include running a network of free-computer sites in Burnaby; creating an online one-on-one computer tutoring program; and supporting the technology enabling an online employment program that reaches across Canada. Chad also sits on the other side of the online learning environment, completing his Certified Association Executive certification through online learning.
chadl@neilsquire.ca | @chadleaman
OUR SPONSOR
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!