Category: Event report

Event Report: 7 Steps to Growing Your Nonprofit With Youtube Videos


7 Steps to Scaling Your Nonprofit or Business With Youtube Videos (Even if You Have Never Done Videos)

In this workshop we discussed 7 actionable steps that will allow to grow your organization on Youtube and show them in action! Participants learned how to:

• Find topics in demand

• Create content that mesmerizes your audience

• Make your videos easy to watch, listen and find

Julia Vorontsova is the founder of Kakadu Media and an SEO expert with over seven years’ experience in the marketing industry. She currently teaches how to create effective marketing videos for business through Langara College’s Continuing Education Department. She has learned video SEO from top industry experts in California and was awarded the Local Video Marketer competition prize as the most improved local video marketer in 2015. Julia has worked on projects in both China and Canada for small to medium-sized businesses. She has an MA from UBC in cognitive science and Asian studies and has researched conceptual metaphors, focusing on their use in successful national and international advertising. She is fluent in four languages, including Mandarin and Ukrainian, and is passionate about advertising and environmental sustainability.Julia’s vision is to help business owners achieve their dreams by offering exceptional expertise and value in online video marketing.

Mapping Your Data + QGIS Slides

January’s NetSquared Vancouver meetup featured a free-flowing discussion about how data can be mapped and visualized. Event host Noah Ferguson shared his experience working in the political realm and we received an overview of GQIS, an open source GIS program, from Jim O’Leary and Rick Davidson. They’ve generously shared their slides.

 

If you’d like to learn more about QGIS and Geospatial technology Rick and Jim are also offering a course at Langara.

Langara Qgis Course

Starting with Introduction to Geospatial Technology on Tuesday January 19, 2016, our new program offers five courses that can be taken individually or combined to qualify for the GIS Certificate.
Geographers, cartographers, environmental activists, urban planners, data visualizers, health policy researchers: whether you are looking for a way to access GIS software to
  • map climate change or traffic patterns,
  • supplement expensive proprietary software or use it in the field, or
  • enable your constituents to test various choices from different data sets,
GIS is a great addition to your skill set.
Using open source software loaded on your own laptop, you will build knowledge, skills and a portfolio of mapping projects to enhance your career, advance your cause or communicate your research.
In demand in a world increasingly focussed on visual representation of data to explain, persuade and project, a foundation in GIS principles and hands-on, practical experience with open source freely available software gives you a technological advantage with employers. And a powerful tool for making effective use of Open Data.
For course details, go to http://langara.ca/continuing-studies/programs-and-courses/programs/geographic-information-systems/index.html
To Register, call 604.323.522 today.

Video and Slides: PCI Compliance and Fraud Prevention in Nonprofits

Are you trying to wrap your head around PCI security requirements, how to securely manage payment card data and what types of credit card fraud to watch out for? During November’s Net2van meeting we learned more about the implications of PCI-DSS requirements, best practices around securely storing credit card data and how to put tools in place to prevent costly (and frustrating) credit card fraud at your organization.

Patricia O’Connor, Partner Account Manager at iATS Payments, was our guest presenter and has generously shared her slides and a video of her talk. iATS Payments provides payment processing products and services to over 10,000 nonprofit organizations around the world.

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