IABC/BC, the B.C. Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, is looking for local non-profits who would like some help with a spring project.
Gift of Communications is an IABC/BC program where volunteers put their business communication expertise to work to support local non-profit organizations. This win-win opportunity allows the members of the trade organization to make a difference in the local community, while showcasing the communications profession and its flagship association.
Mel Findlater shares how tablets and smartphones such as the iPad and iphone really can create social change in education, for people with disabilities, older people, and in your everyday productivity.
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Tablets, Smartphones, iPads, iPhones: Gadgets for Good?Net Tuesday is thrilled to have Mel Findlater from NetSquared Cambridge present on mobile technology for good this month. =========== Abo…
Our presenter, from Cambridge UK
Melanie Findlater (melfindlater) on TwitterInstantly connect to what’s most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news.
Tablets and Smartphones – Gadgets for Good?Prezi transcript Tablets and Smartphones Gadgets for Good? Communication Independence Tablets & Smartphones- Gadgets for Good? They just …
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Ha! RT @nettuesday: #ntvan @melfindlater rocks the smart world… Who pushes the envelope, Mel does!Melanie Findlater
thx everyone at @nettuesday for all of the good discussion tonight. So much enthusaism – great group! #ntvanMelanie Findlater
@melfindlater @NetTuesday Great point of entry for us newbies at Net Tuesday. Thank you, Mel! #ntvanRyan Calbick
See more sections below… Photos, feeds, links and our glorious hosts.
Content from Tablets & smartphones: Gadgets for Good?Net Tuesday January 8 2013 www.meetup.com/Vancouver-social-media-nonprofits-social-c… Ever wondered what the big deal is about these ne…
Video by Eoghan Moriarty of Mindagape Creative. The video is dark, but the audio mix is SWEET!
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#ntvan can you share your story with @melflatlinerDavid Gloyn-Cox
#ntvan the device is not the focus it is the tool to achieve the goal of salient and worthwhile educationNet Tuesday Meetup
#ntvan look back to the olden days… limited classroom… The pre silicon days.Net Tuesday Meetup
RT @elijah: Super rad(ical) video on new ways to teach. “@NetTuesday: #ntvan The Flipped Classroom http://www.flippedclassroom.com/”Ajay Masala Puri
@FizaAlam if u weren’t a virtual teacher video on new ways to teach. “@NetTuesday: #ntvan The Flipped Classroom http://www.flippedclassroom.com/”KallMeK
Super rad(ical) video on new ways to teach. “@NetTuesday: #ntvan The Flipped Classroom http://www.flippedclassroom.com/”Eli van der Giessen
I love @melfindlater ‘s conversational approach at @NetTuesday. Come back to the west coast! #ntvan @Net2CambEli van der Giessen
#ntvan imagine the voice of Julie andrews @melfindlater sings and shows a few of her favourite things.Net Tuesday Meetup
O god not w/ my husky voice! RT @nettuesday: #ntvan imagine voice of Julie andrews @melfindlater sings & shows a few of her favourite thingsMelanie Findlater
#ntvan nice participation from the audience… Great to hear the comment.Thank you net tuesday peeps :)Net Tuesday Meetup
Great to be at @NetTuesday #ntvan to learn some tips and tricks on using smartphones and tablets for good. I’m on a tablet right now!PeaceGeeks
#ntvan Making the impossible possible!Net Tuesday Meetup
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Ooo me likes @Popplet (no autocorrect, not pooplet) for organizing thoughts and notes. Thx @melfindlater #ntvanAjay Masala Puri
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An finally but not least our great hosts for the night.
Thanks @thenetworkhub for hosting @NetTuesday tonight! So swanky. #ntvan http://pic.twitter.com/Y6boFMjdKimberly Antifaeff
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Here’s what happened in my NetSquared gig in December/ 2012.
Happy New Year!
I’m looking forward to supporting your local community activism in 2013 and I’m delighted to welcome new members to the NetSquared local organizer team. In fact, I received more than five new organizer applications over the holidays and several inactive groups including Seattle and Montreal are also planning to relaunch.
Let’s use the new year to commit to holding frequent NetSquared local events and if you know anyone who might be a good prospect for launching a new group please refer them to me!
Here’s an update on our latest activity:
Highlights from the NetSquared community blog
The NetSquared community blog is alive again! We welcome your contributions. Use the blog to promote your upcoming events, share your nonprofit tech thoughts, or show off (don’t be shy!) with highlights from your meetups. We welcome your blog posts, photos, storifys, videos and more!
The eleventh of the NetSquared platform is now live. Highlights include the ability to add non-meetup events to your user profile and projects. We have improved the local organizer map to make the pins bigger and easier to navigate. The local organizer profile pages have been fixed and now show your city and link to your group pages.
Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest
The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest invites both new and seasoned developers to create an app for “social good” – and you could win cash prizes to help fuel your dream and keep it going!
The contest is open to pre-existing applications, so if you know of a Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 app that meets our definition of social good please encourage the developer to register.
Note: the contest is only open to residents of the USA. But anyone can vote and share!
January events
So far 14 events have been scheduled in January, with several still in gestation. Are you planning an event that didn’t make it onto this list? Let me know!
We will be switching up our meeting spaces in 2013. Please read this carefully so that you don’t get lost!
January 8th’s mobile-focused event will be held at The Network Hub at 422 Richards St.
Our February and March meetings will be held at The HiVE.
There is now a NetSquared meetup in Abbotsford. Tell your friends in the valley to join the group!
We are planning our first Surrey event for June. We can tentatively announce that Darren Barefoot and Miss604 (Rebecca Bollwitt) will be speaking. We are looking for a local partner in Surrey who can help us plan quarterly events. Is that you?
Thank you for an amazing 2012. Here’s what we’ve done together:
9 meet-ups with experts from Vancouver’s nonprofit tech community
1 pub night (want to do another?)
1 unconference (with another this spring)
1 social media surgery (where we dressed up as ER staff)
Grew from 900 members to 1358. Vancouver is now one of the fastest growing Netsquared groups (and the second largest of the 50 groups!)
It has been great to meet so many new people and learn about the world-changing things you are doing. The volunteer organizing team is honoured to support you.
So, what’s next?
New venues
As you might have heard W2 Woodwards is facing eviction so Net Tuesday will be trying out some new homes this fall while we settle on a new permanent venue. The Network Hub and The HiVE have already offered to host us.
A huge thanks to Irwin, Lianne and the entire W2 Woodwards team for their support over the years.
Make Meaningful Connections
It’s uncomfortable being the outsider. We’ve all been there: walking into a room where everybody else seems to know each other and nobody gives you…
Ever wondered what the big deal is about these new tablets, such as the iPad?
Curious as to how smartphones like the iPhone or Android phone can change the way we live?
How are they really different? Come hear one persons account of how tablets and smartphones such as the iPad and iphone really can create social change in education, for people with disabilities, older people, and in your everyday productivity.
Hear stories, see apps, be inspired… and if you have a smart phone or a tablet do bring it along and feel free to tweet, hunt for apps and so on.
Mel Findlater is a Cambridge-based geek for social good (but she grew up near Vancouver!) She gets ridiculously excited about the possibilities of how technology can create social change. She has a background in working with young people, people with disabilities, older people and in the voluntary sector.
Most of her days are spent volunteering and working for The You Can Hub, enthusiastically raising awareness and developing projects to do with ipads, tablets, and technology to promote independence and learning. She’s keen to share her knowledge, skills and passion with others, especially those who are on their own mission for social good.
Follow Mel and the You Can Hub on Twitter
@melfindlater
@youcanhub
Mel is really looking forward to the event.
“This evening really focuses on the work that I have been doing and will be doing, exploring and talking to people about how to make it a reality and spread the word. It’s all about the social good…which I think fits perfectly with Net Tuesday Vancouver”
Our sponsor
Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Woodwards as our venue sponsor for the 2012-2013 season. They do cool things. Check them out!
Here’s what I’ve been up to over the last month in my gig as NetSquared Local Community Curator.
It’s December, which means we’re on the last page of our calendar. Team NetSquared is working hard to wrap-up some this year’s projects. We’ve now completed all seven of our NetSquared Camps and have just one more Global Leadership Council meeting left. But just because some things are coming to an end there’s no reason for tears – rather let’s reflect back on what we’ve learned over the year and share the gift of knowledge on the Washington DC group’s quora page.
The future of NetSquared
The recent reorganization of NetSquared sees the emergence of a unified content and community team for both the NetSquared and TechSoup brands. Sheetal Singh is our new TechSoup champion, taking over from Billy Bicket who is going to take on platform work.
What does that all mean to NetSquared organizers? I’ll be able to share more by mid-December when Sheetal sends her community update, but in the short-term you’ll start to see a regular stream of new content on the NetSquared community blog.
NetSquared Camps
This fall’s major initiative was the NetSquared Camps, which were seven regional unconferences and workshops produced by our local organizer network. The camps were an amazing opportunity to expand the NetSquared local experience from a brief daytime or evening event into an all-day extravaganza. It was also a great excuse for us to get local organizers together for face-to-face meetings, since the big lesson from the Global Leadership Council experiment this year was that we can kickstart inter-organizer relationships by getting people together in the same room. Which, honestly, shouldn’t have been too much of a shock since that’s the key insight that keeps all of us local organizers doing our meetups from month to month.
The tenth release of the NetSquared platform is now live. Many of the changes were beneath the hood, but you’ll definitely notice the improvements to the community blog. We’re now randomly featuring bloggers from the local network. You may see your face next time you go to http://www.NetSquared.org/blog!
Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest
The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest invites both new and seasoned developers to create an app for “social good” – and you could win cash prizes to help fuel your dream and keep it going!
There are already five entries in the contest. Check out their project pages and use the social share buttons on the one you think is coolest.
Note: the contest is only open to residents of the USA. But anyone can vote and share!
December events
A quick scan shows ten events happening across the NetSquared local network. That’s a big drop from the 21 in November… Curse those holidays! 🙂
Net Tuesday is going international, baby!
Seattle-based social media marketer Felice Lam created a storify from Brady Josephson’s Net Tuesday presentation on A/B testing.
I’m gonna host a #commbuild chat on December 11. You should join us!
Belt AND suspenders
TOPIC: Why your community needs to go offline
DATE: Tuesday, December 11. TIME: 1-2 PM EST/ 10-11 AM PST
Are you really trying to create a community? Then you’d better seriously consider starting up regular face-to-face meetings for your members. Join the #commbuild community for a discussion about the value of recurring offline group meetings, and share your stories of how offline community has inspired change. When and how should you create a meetup group? How are offline and online communities connected? And what’s in it for the organizer?
You should come. You wouldn’t want me to quote Margaret Mead at you, would you?
Follow the magic hashtag #commbuild
YOUR FACILITATOR Elijah van der Giessen must be 100 years old, because he started doing Community Building back when “online social networks” consisted of email. Currently he’s the NetSquared Local Community Curator supporting a global volunteer network of 50 groups that each year hold over 450 events for the nonprofit technology sector. He’s also been the volunteer coordinator for outdoor festivals, environmental NGOs and Canadian Idol.
And yes, he wears a belt AND suspenders. That’s what old men do.
ABOUT #COMMBUILD
These conversations are focused on issues and topics relevant to those working on community building or in community management roles. They are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools.
Anyone interested in community building, whether you are formally in a Community Management job or not, is welcome to join the group and participate in the weekly chats. You do not need to be a member of NTEN to participate, but you can join us online at http://my.nten.org/group/commbuild
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Go to http://tweetchat.com/room/commbuild (or use your preferred twitter chat client), login to your twitter account, and join the conversation! Just be sure to tag your tweets with #commbuild so your tweets are threaded into the conversation.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
What offline communities are you a part of? Which ones do you value the most?
WHY did you join your offline community? Why do you think others join?
Do you lead an offline community right now?
If you have peer offline organizers elsewhere do you interact with them? How is the * network managed and sustained?
Are your offline and online communities connected? How?
What online tools do you use to manage your offline community?
What’s your #1 tip for a community organizer that wants to organize an offline meeting?
How do you recruit offline community members? Online? Offline?
If you have both online and offline communities how are they different? Demographics. Engagement. Activation. What’s the crossover?
What’s in it for the community organizer?
What’s your favorite online community right now?
People can be shy face-to-face. What’s a good icebreaker?
What’s your most transformative community experience? Was it online or offline?
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