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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

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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!

 

Vancouver Salesforce Nonprofit User Group: Processing credit cards with IATS Brickwork

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When: Wednesday, November 16. 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Where: The HiVE. 210 – 128 W Hastings St

Processing donations and payments is a pain.

First you need to enter the credit card into into a Point Of Sale machine (if  you have even have one), then you need to record that payment on the individual or organization’s record (if you’ve got a database). There’s a lot of hardware, paper and potential for error.

IATS Brickwork might be a solution for you. It removes the hardware and automatically adds donations to your Salesforce Contacts because you enter the credit card info directly into Salesforce. Come check out the demo. Make them hard questions!

What is IATS?

A credit card processing company that specialized in serving nonprofits. They have a website.

What is Brickwork?

Check it out on the Salesforce App Exchange.

Here’s what IATS says:

Process both one-time and recurring credit card or ACH transactions from within any Salesforce CRM edition. All credit card types are accepted for both US and Canadian transactions. Let BRICKWORK by IATS Payments help your organization today!

Integrates seamlessly into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM Editions.

Give your donors the choice of making single or recurring gift donations with their Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards in US or Canadian dollars.

Create seamless, online donation pages with the integrated IATS product, AURA.

BRICKWORK is a FREE native Salesforce Application that brings the power of IATS Payments processing directly to your Salesforce environment. Whether donations come over the phone or through your website, BRICKWORK enables your organization to process credit card payments and maximize revenue.

Integrated into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM editions, BRICKWORK eliminates the hassle of manual data entry by automating the payment information and record creation. Real-time processing allows for greater workload efficiency and instantaneous results. With the ability to create donation pages directly from the AURA custom tab, taking your fundraising efforts online has never been easier.

As a Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified company, IATS ensures all transactions are handled with absolute security and confidentiality.

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P.S. We’ll supply snacks!

Net Tuesday December 6 – Delivering services through e-Learning

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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.

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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 photoChad 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

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!

 

Vancouver Salesforce Nonprofit User Group: Processing credit cards with IATS Brickwork

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When: Wednesday, November 16. 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Where: The HiVE. 210 – 128 W Hastings St

Processing donations and payments is a pain.

First you need to enter the credit card into into a Point Of Sale machine (if  you have even have one), then you need to record that payment on the individual or organization’s record (if you’ve got a database). There’s a lot of hardware, paper and potential for error.

IATS Brickwork might be a solution for you. It removes the hardware and automatically adds donations to your Salesforce Contacts because you enter the credit card info directly into Salesforce. Come check out the demo. Make them hard questions!

What is IATS?

A credit card processing company that specialized in serving nonprofits. They have a website.

What is Brickwork?

Check it out on the Salesforce App Exchange.

Here’s what IATS says:

Process both one-time and recurring credit card or ACH transactions from within any Salesforce CRM edition. All credit card types are accepted for both US and Canadian transactions. Let BRICKWORK by IATS Payments help your organization today!

Integrates seamlessly into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM Editions.

Give your donors the choice of making single or recurring gift donations with their Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards in US or Canadian dollars.

Create seamless, online donation pages with the integrated IATS product, AURA.

BRICKWORK is a FREE native Salesforce Application that brings the power of IATS Payments processing directly to your Salesforce environment. Whether donations come over the phone or through your website, BRICKWORK enables your organization to process credit card payments and maximize revenue.

Integrated into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM editions, BRICKWORK eliminates the hassle of manual data entry by automating the payment information and record creation. Real-time processing allows for greater workload efficiency and instantaneous results. With the ability to create donation pages directly from the AURA custom tab, taking your fundraising efforts online has never been easier.

As a Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified company, IATS ensures all transactions are handled with absolute security and confidentiality.

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P.S. We’ll supply snacks!

Media Democracy Days: Vancouver

Presenting another event media-sponsored by Net Tuesday Vancouver.

Fun!

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Know the media. Be the media. Change the media.

November 11-13, 2011
Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Public Library, SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Media Democracy Day(s) is an annual event which draws and fosters dialogue between activists, academics, media producers and citizens with the ambition of creating a more democratic media system. Embarking upon its tenth year, MDD has expanded to encompass the weekend of November 11-13, and will include a film screening, media fair and interactive discussion panels touching upon a range of key issues, with an emphasis on minority media practices. Additionally, this year’s event will allow participants to explore the option of creating their own media for social change, via a number of workshops on November 13.

Dr. Sut Jhally will provide the first keynote address on Friday evening, while co-keynote speaker Judy Rebick will deliver her introduction on the following afternoon, kicking off Saturday’s festivities. Discussion panels include an investigation into the opportunities and obstacles facing journalism as a profession; the role of unions and public opinion in “the Crisis Economy”; Aboriginal media practices; the evolution of media policy featuring a multi party panel; and examinations into the role of transcultural media in Canada, as well as new forms of civic engagement.

The Media Democracy Fair, an exhibition of local media makers will be open throughout the day on Saturday. Social activism and production workshops will commence the follow day at SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts and the W2 Media Café.

For more info: http://mediademocracyday.org
Cost: Free to all, but seating is limited. To pre-register, please visit http://mediademocracyday2011.eventbrite.com

Twitter: @MediaDemocDay, #MDDVan Facebook: “Media Democracy Day Vancouver” Webpage.