I am digital and so can you (slides and photos from Ben Johnson’s digital tools presentation)

Frontier Consulting‘s Ben Johnson delivered a humdinger of a presentation for Net Tuesday. It was so jam-packed full of information that no notetaker could hope to keep up. Luckily for us Ben has generously agreed to share his slides.

Voila!

Linda Liu was our photographer again (yay!) and has already shared the first 10 photos from the event.

I took those photos and used Animoto to create a video slideshow.

Oh, and charities are eligible for a free upgrade on their Animoto account.

Volunteer update

  • Amy and Helen were awesome in their tag-team role as greeters!
  • David Gloyn-Cox has offered to join our volunteer team. Yay!
  • Linda is already uploading photos.
  • Rita Jasper recorded the whole event and is planning on producing a series of short excerpts. I’m really excited to see what she creates. Go Rita!
  • Kelvin expertly conducted our online symphony last night. It’s a beautiful thing.

Interested in joining the volunteer team? Give us a shout!

And lastly, please join me in congratulating my co-organizer Chad on being a new father of twins!!!!

Get Tickets for the 5th Vancouver Timeraiser!

Are you ready for the most dynamic volunteer-focused art events of the year?The 5th Vancouver Timeraiser is November 8th at the Roundhouse Community Center, 181 Roundhouse Mews. At the Timeraiser you bid volunteer time for incredible works of art purchased from local artists. We call it facilitated simultaneous giving and getting. Ok, maybe we don’t call it that, but it’s a great night where everyone wins. Register soon before tickets sell out and help us raise thousands of volunteer hours for Vancouver nonprofits!


Net Tuesday Members get DISCOUNT Tickets!

As a Net Tuesday member you can get tickets for only $10!

Just go to www.timeraiser.ca and enter the following promotional code to get your half-price tickets: Discount Code = net2012

Timeraiser Details:

Thursday November 8th
Doors open at 7:00pm
at Roundhouse Community Center

Tickets
Tickets are normally $20 and can be purchased online at timeraiser.ca

No paper ticket necessary.

Timeraiser 101
The Timeraiser is part volunteer fair, part silent art auction and part night on the town. Throughout the evening meet with different agencies and match your skills to their needs. Once you have made your matches, you are eligible to bid on artwork. The big twist is rather than bid money, you bid volunteer hours. If you have the winning bid you have 12 months to complete your pledge before bringing the artwork home as a reminder of your goodwill.
Agenda
7:00 pm – Doors Open
8:00 pm – Welcoming Remarks
8:30 pm – Silent Art Auction Begins
9:30 pm – Silent Art Auction Ends
10:00 pm – Final announcements
See our FAQs for complete art bidding rules/what happens if you have a winning art bid.
*cash bar and light catering
*dress is Evening Casual
*max art bid is 100 hours
Connect
Please contact Amanda Grainger-Munday if you have any questions. You can also follow updates on Twitter,  Facebook, LinkedIn.

[Meetup] Prove It! A Practical Guide to A/B Testing for Nonprofits – December 4, 2012

What types of stories best engage your audience? How can you best move your supporters to action? Why do people give to your organization? By performing some simple A/B tests you can start to get the answers to these questions (and more) that can help you shape your marketing, communications and fundraising strategies. Brady presents a practical guide to A/B testing with a sample process, tool recommendations and a case study of a real A/B test.

RSVP on Meetup.com

When: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 5:30 PM To 7:30 PM

Where: W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

RSVP on Meetup.com

Agenda

  • 5:30 – 6:00 pm: schmoozing
  • 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Brady Josephson knocks your socks off
  • 7:00 – 7:30 pm: Q&A

Brady Josephson

Brady Josephson - Profile - Thumb -WebBrady is currently the Strategic Director at Charity Express, a Vancouver based digital agency serving small and medium sized nonprofit organizations. He’s a Board Member of The Seacrest Foundation (not affiliated with Ryan…), an Adjunct Professor of fundraising at North Park University and blogs often at recharity.ca and less often on The Huffington Post. You can follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bradyjosephson.

Our sponsor

Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2012-2013 season. They do cool things. Check them out!

[Jobs] Web Manager at OpenMedia.ca

Do you have drupal development and project management skills? OpenMedia.ca, one of Canada’s fastest growing and innovating campaigning organizations needs you!

Web Manager

http://openmedia.ca/work

We’re currently seeking a Web Manager to help us be more innovative and leading edge with our technology. We have one of the biggest lists of supporters in Canada, and have begun expanding internationally through our new online hub at OpenMediaNow.net and our campaign to preserve Internet freedom globally at StopTheTrap.net. At this crucial point in our development, we’re seeking the right person to help us engage supporters with sophisticated online tools and an enthusiastic and inspired approach to online campaigns.

Position Description

The Web Manager will work with our Communications Manager, our Executive Director, and volunteer developers to develop and deploy online tools, maintain and improve OpenMedia’s online presence, and liaise with hosts to implement performance optimizations.

The Web Manager is primarily responsible for Drupal development projects, and helping to maximize the effectiveness of our digital environments in order to engage our supporters in safeguarding the open and affordable Internet.

Duties:

  • Looking holistically at OpenMedia’s online presence and developing strategies to maximize its effectiveness.
  • Managing and executing web development projects.
  • Being our liaison to the developer world and activate our community of talented volunteers.
  • Website testing, bug fixing & optimization.
  • Providing effort estimates; communicating the progress of projects.

Qualifications:

  • Experience with Drupal, including a solid understanding of the framework, design and implementation of modules and general site maintenance, coding best-practices, resources and the Drupal community.
  • Some experience developing software in PHP.
  • Experience with jQuery/Javascript & AJAX techniques.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced working environment as part of a team or alone; ability to respond rapidly to technical issues, where applicable.
  • Aptitude for online campaigning and understanding of the requirements of a networked not-for-profit.
  • Must have own laptop and software licenses.

Assets:

  • Passion for the open Internet and Internet freedom issues.
  • Experience custom coding in Drupal or other CMSes.
  • Experience with web development collaboration and volunteer management.
  • Experience with MySQL database development.
  • Fluent in HTML5 and CSS3.
  • Experience with cross-site integration using JSON/JSONP & XML.
  • Understanding of the LAMP technology stack.
  • General understanding of best practices for web-based architecture and design.

Part-time or full-time (minimum 25 hours/week), $3000-4000/month, based on experience. One-year contract with three-month probationary period. Possibility of promotion and bonus based on performance.

Please send your resume and any portfolio links you’d like to include to lindsey@openmedia.ca by October 19th. Do not include an attached cover letter, simply include a few lines about your passion for this work in the body of the email.

[Webinar] Overcoming Bad Data: Solutions for Salesforce Data Pollution

https://cc.readytalk.com/r/xl8908hg77ly

What is bad data? Why should sales teams improve the quality of data in their Salesforce CRM? How can Salesforce administrators clean up their databases and maintain a consistently high level of data quality? Who should Salesforce administrators turn to for effective data quality solutions?

This webinar will answer these questions and more, explaining why data quality is mission critical to the enterprise and laying out a basic action plan for Salesforce administrators who want to neutralize the threat of poor data quality once and for all.

RSVP here:
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/xl8908hg77ly

 

Details

  • Date:Thu, Oct 11, 2012
  • Time:01:00 PM CDT
  • Duration:1 hour
  • Host(s):Jason Kort

Presenter Information

Mark Esdale, Vice President, Business Development, CRMfusion, Inc.

 Mark Esdale is one of the original founders of CRMfusion Inc and a previous large scale enterprise Salesforce administrator. Mark entered the world of online CRM in 1998 and has been dedicated to it ever since. At CRMfusion Mark specializes in working with some of the largest Salesforce Org’s worldwide regarding solutions to their data quality requirements.

Creative Commons Salon Vancouver – October 15th

A cool event re-posted from CreativeCommons.ca

Creative Commons Salon Vancouver – October 15th

Registration in now open! Please click here to register using our online sign-up form.

A large part of the origins of the Creative Commons license was the artistic sector. Join our panel of practicing artists who will share how and why they chose to use Creative Commons licenses for their works, and discuss the changing landscape of creative practice, intellectual property and participatory culture.

This is the second in a series of salons across the country to raise awareness of the potentials of the Creative Commons and to celebrate the re-launch of the Creative Commons Canada affiliate,

The salon is being held in conjunction with the 9th International Open Education conference.

Panelists will include

Date/Time – Monday, October 15 7-9pm
Place – Upstairs at the W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC
Cost – This is a FREE event. However, space is limited – please add your name to the attendee list so we can plan appropriately for food orders and seating.

[Meetup] Crowdfunding for nonprofits – October 2, 2012

What is crowdfunding and why does it have the potential to become a powerful tool to help you raise money for your cause?

Crowdfunding is the pooling of resources by a group in support of a project. Sound familiar? Charities have been doing it for decades, but new tools and techniques are emerging that are resulting in an explosion of funds raised. Join Net Tuesday October 2 for a panel of experts discussing the best practices that will lead to fundraising success.

 

 

The format:

6:00 – 7:15 pm: a panel of four expert speakers talk trends and best practices

7:15 – 8:00 pm: three nonprofits present 10 minute case studies based on their experience.

  • Jared Lee of Peace Geeks talks about their recently launched crowdfunding campaign.
  • plus a special guest we haven’t confirmed yet!

RSVP on Meetup.com

When: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 5:30 PM To 8:00 PM

Where: W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

RSVP on Meetup.com

Trevor Loke

OUR PRESENTERS

Trevor Loke became Vancouver’s youngest-ever elected official at the age of 22 upon his election as Vancouver Park Board Commissioner. Trevor is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer with Weeve, the world’s crowdfunding platform which doesn’t take transaction fees and specializes in nonprofit projects, current partners include the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, YWCA and Covenant House. Trevor is a goaltender with Vancouver’s Cutting Edges Hockey Club, and has worked for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and various non-profit organizations in communications, marketing and fundraising. He’s on twitter, too.

“Crowdfunding solves the crisis in the not-for-profit sector”

Brett Conkin

Bret Conkin is the Marketing Driver for social fundraising platform FundRazr. He has founded and collaborated on multiple tech start-ups and has been involved in Crowd-funding software since 2007.
Past roles with P&G and BC Lottery have sharpened his ability to deliver on customer needs. A past Board member of the Stanley Park Ecological Society, Bret is also the licensee for TEDxUBC. An often injured recreational athlete, Bret plays younger than his years. Bret can be followed socially on Twitter, on LinkedIn and Facebook.

“Crowd funding turns fans into fundraisers and supporters into evangelists.”

 

 

 

David CameronA generalist by nature, David Cameron is currently an Associate Consultant at Momentum Consulting Group in Vancouver, where he advises multiple local and international social ventures and non-profit organizations. He is also the Canadian Amabassador for StartSomeGood.com, an online kickstarter for social ventures, non-profit organizations, and social good projects. David founded the first student-run social entrepreneurship conference in Vancouver, contributed to the recent report produced by the BC Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship, and sits on the Board for the Workplace Center for Spiritual and Ethical Development. He has worked in brand strategy at Coca Cola’s Canadian head office and in various roles at two prominent financial institutions,including his work at Vancity to help launch a $15-million fund to invest in social ventures in BC. David enjoys hiking, practicing yoga, having conversations with friends over a beer, he has studied in Paris, traveled to over two dozen countries, and received an undergraduate degree with Honors at the Sauder School of Business at UBC.
David on Twitter and LinkedIn.

“Crowdfunding connects non-profit organizations with key supporters who not only want to see it succeed, but who also want to help it along the way.”

Ian MacKenzie Ian Mackenzie is a Vancouver-based filmmaker, focusing on teachers, stories, and movements that are articulating the new paradigm. Ian’s online short “The Revolution is Love” was named 1 of the Top 10 Occupy Wall St films of 2011, and has been garnered over 300,000 views on Youtube. His latest project is the feature doc Occupy Love, directed by Velcrow Ripper, premiering at the Vancouver Film Festival October 4.

Check him out on his website, Twitter or read his thoughts on crowdfunding.

“Done well, crowdfunding can accelerate the work of non-profits, achieving a huge step forward away from the old economic paradigm.”

Our sponsor

Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2012-2013 season.

They do cool things. Check them out!

Homework readings

New meetup group: Young Community Leaders Network

Check out this new meetup group from Net Tuesday friend Trina Isakson.
Young Community Leaders Network (Metro Vancouver) is a space for young nonprofit and community leaders to gain skills, knowledge and
connections required to create positive change.

Who should join:

  • nonprofit professionals
  • board members
  • social entrepreneurs
  • nonprofit service providers (graphic designers, writers, lawyers, trainers, consultants, etc.)
  • students interested in working in the sector
  • others demonstrating community leadership

Upcoming events:


Join us at Meetup.com to learn about other upcoming learning, sharing, and networking opportunities.