The event will be streamed live at http://www.livestream.com/w2media
Online fundraising presentation for Social Media Club Vancouver
The cool kids at Social Media Club Vancouver invited me to their #SMCYVRsummer event August 14. Good times! They hold their event in Ceili’s, so there’s booze. A valuable lesson for Net Tuesday?
As an old man I went in to sass the crowd of youngsters and told them that they couldn’t fundraise with social media (a bit of a lie. But also true.)
Here’s the slide deck I used to support my song and dance.
Changing the Face of a City: The work behind the web redevelopment project of vancouver.ca
Net Tuesday is excited to be a media partner for this special presentation on the creation of Vancouver’s new website.
RSVP on Meetup.com
When: Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 6:00 PM To 8:00 PM
Where: Main floor of City Hall, 453 West 12th Ave (corner of Cambie)
Early in August 2012, the City of Vancouver will unveil an entirely new vancouver.ca website. This is more than a website refresh – it’s a completely new website, built from the ground up with new technology and content strategies, to serve as the City of Vancouver’s user-centered presence on the web. What’s unique about the City’s new site is the way we got to the radical redesign of the site. Employing a user-centered design process combined with a comprehensive content strategy, the City embarked on a path that is known for maximum benefits for users with maximum efficiencies for internal processes.
How did a team of content strategists rework a 60,000-page municipal website to bring it down to a fraction of the size while increasing its effectiveness? Come and learn how we placed the focus completely on the user. Presentations by Gordon Ross of Open Road (UX research), Rahel Anne Bailie (content strategy), and Jerome Ryckborst (UX and usability).
This session is a special cross-association event, bringing together user experience and content specialists. Be prepared to network with your peers from VanUE, the Content Strategy and Information Architecture meetup groups, HTCE, Third Tuesday, and Net Tuesdays.
The event will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 14th on the main floor of City Hall, 453 West 12th Ave (corner of Cambie). Parking is available around City Hall and bike rack space is available on the north side of the building. Easy access by public transit. Building is accessible.
There is no charge for this event, but you are attending, we do need you to RSVP at http://vancouverweblaunch.eventbrite.com. We are also organizing an after-event drinks & social time nearby, so stay tuned for more information about that.
Social Media Club Vancouver
I’m tickled that I was asked to be a presenter at the August 14 Social Media Club Vancouver event.
I accept!
Social Media Club of Vancouver presents “Social Media in Education and Non-Profits”
Hi team!
Net Tuesday is taking August off, but there’s still plenty to do! Join Social Media Club Vancouver for a nonprofit-focused tweetup.
Net Tuesday organizer @elijah will be presenting on @NetTuesdayYVR and @DavidSuzukiFDN
RSVP on EVENTBRITE: http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/3996904850
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SMCYVR Social Media Club of Vancouver presents the 2012 Summer Tweetup
Social Media in Education and for Non-Profits
RSVP AT http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/3996904850
Event hashtag – #smcyvrsummer
@SMCYVR
@CeilisVan
WHAT: Come out and join the SMCYVR Social Media Club of Vancouver for the Brand New 2012 Summer Tweetup Event!
WHERE: 2nd Floor – Ceili’s Irish Pub and Restaurant 670 Smithe Street at Granville Street Vancouver V6B 1E3
WHY: To eat, drink, listen, learn and be merry of course!
WHEN: Tuesday August 14th at 6PM to 10PM or later
SMCYVR Social Media Club of Vancouver presents the 2012 Summer Tweetup
***Guest Speakers for the evening include:
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Kimberly Voll An award-winning university computer-science instructor, passionate about video games, digital media, artificial intelligence and people. Specializing in knowledge representation, transfer & discovery, natural language processing & understanding, software development, and human-centric design for information transfer in interactive media and teaching. She is a Faculty member at The Centre for Digital Media and former member of the Faculty in the Department of Computer Science at University of British Columbia. She has a Ph.D in Computer Science from UBC. Kim is also interested in social media as a fledgling social platform and how it’s taken over in such a short space of time. This has a lot of implications for us socially and psychologically as we learn to integrate our digital selves with our real selves. @zanytomato |
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Elijah Vandergiessen
Eli fell in love with volunteers in 2000, and has been working to build community ever since. He’ll take any title: Production Manager, Tour Director, Volunteer Wrangler, Wagon Master, Outreach Coordinator… even “Marketer”…just as long as he gets to hang out with enthusiastic people who are working together on a project because of a consuming passion. He also helps to co-host the ever popular Net Tuesday Event in Vancouver, these gatherings provide a chance to connect for all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change in your local community. Eli spent five years working for the David Suzuki Foundation managing their web team and advocating for their online community, and has just recently started in a new role at NetSquared, As the Community Curator for NetSquared at TechSoup Global, he fosters online and offline network involvement through community management and content curation. He works closely with NetSquared Local organizers to launch, grow, and support local community groups in over 50 cities around the world. Eli will be talking about social media and its role in fundraising from his work at the David Suzuki Foundation and about his work with Net Tuesday @NetTuesdayYVR |
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Amber Turnau
Amber has recently joined the 6S Marketing team as a Social Media Project Manager. She’s been working in the content space for nearly 10 years; beginning her career in journalism and shifting her focus to marketing as a public relations specialist, social media strategist and blogger. Amber has moved to Vancouver from Whistler, where she was a well-respected marketing professional and social media leader in the community. Amber spent five years in the Whistler Blackcomb marketing division, where she was the company’s social media strategist. Amber is thrilled to be back in Metro Vancouver – where she grew up – and spends her days, walking her dog Mickey, paddling, snowboarding, surfing, and playing roller derby. You can read about her latest adventures in the Unplugged column on vancouverisawesome.com. @amberturnau |
***There will also be a special announcement by Kemp Edmonds SMCYVR President this evening.
EVENT LOCATION:
2nd Floor – Ceili’s Irish Pub and Restaurant
2nd Floor – Ceili’s Irish Pub and Restaurant
670 Smithe Street at Granville
Vancouver V6B 1E3
SCHEDULE:
6:00pm – Arrival
6:30pm – Presentations Begin
10:00pm – Completes Evening
NetSquared: what have I done for the last two months?
It’s been two months since I joined Marc and Anka on the NetSquared community team. But what have I been up to? It’s time to report back.
I started off with a survey to the NetSquared Local organizers, which helped us focus our work initiated by the 100 Day Challenge.
Survey Results and Actions
What you said
You want to bring local organizers together.
What we did
We launched the Regional Gathering Fund to fund NetSquared Camps that will bring local organizers together for face-to-face meetings.
What you said
You want event recipes and templates.
What we did
We’ve been updating the Organizer’s Handbook, have tested the Social Media Surgery format (inspired by organizers in Manchester, Adelaide and Burlington) and will be publishing a new event format called a Tool Jam to the wiki for September 2012. The Tool Jam is a rapid introduction to the software tools used by members of the social benefit technology community, and is inspired by the Ignite and PechaKucha format.
In Progress
You asked for regional Google+ hangouts. We haven’t delivered on these yet, although the NetSquared team has been offering experimental office hours.
Items of less interest
The survey showed that there was less interest in these areas. We’ll ignore them for now!
- Peer mentorships
- best practice webinars
What Else?
In addition to following up on the tasks identified in the survey, the NetSquared team has been hard at work on our ongoing project, which is to act as cheerleaders for the amazing work local organizers are doing in their communities. We’re doing that by highlighting NetSquared Local organizers in our monthly Digital Bites newsletter and by launching the new NetSquared platform, which will feature dedicated pages for each of our local groups and automatically import your meetup.com events into the site.
Complete Survey Data
Taking local to the next level
Strengthening your local group
Meetup: Nonprofits in the Cloud + TechSoup Canada Q&A [September 25 2012]
Have you heard of “cloud computing” or the “cloud” but not quite sure what it is? Wondering how other nonprofits are using it and whether it’s right for you?
When: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 6:00 PM To 7:30 PM
Where: W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC
In this session, you will:
- Get up to speed on what the cloud is and why it is a powerful tool for nonprofits
- Have common questions addressed such as: is it secure? will it save me money?
- See examples of cloud tools in action
- Understand how to think about the “if” and “when” to use cloud computing in your organization
AND – learn about how the TechSoup Canada software donations program can help your nonprofit stay up-to-date on a limited budget. Tierney will go over the basics of how the program works, and be on hand to answer any questions you may have.
BIO:
Tierney is the Manager of Learning & Special Projects at TechSoup Canada, where she works to build technology capacity in the nonprofit sector. She also has experience developing software in the corporate sector and has a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo. You can find out about what she’s up to on her blog or on Twitter at @tierneys.
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!
Net Tuesday September 11 2012
I’m thrilled to have Net Tuesday friends Darren Barefoot (coming from France!) and Theo Lamb kicking off the 2012/12 season.
I’m thrilled to have Net Tuesday friends Darren Barefoot (coming from France!) and Theo Lamb kicking off the 2012/13 season.
Graphics win on Facebook
Meetup: The Science of Facebook Pages for Nonprofits [September 11 2012]
How NGOs win on Facebook
View more presentations from Darren Barefoot
How NGOs win with Facebook
What actually works in garnering likes, comments and shares on Facebook pages? Darren Barefoot and Theo Lamb analyzed 1000 posts from large environmental NGOs and are keen to report their findings. Learn who’s doing Facebook well, and what really works to increase engagement.
When: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 6:00 PM To 7:30 PM
Where: W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC
ABOUT DARREN BAREFOOT
Darren Barefoot is internet famous. He has an honest-to-goodness wikipedia page.
He likes to play on the internet. He’s tweeted more than 17,444 times and it has been suggested that he’s Reddit’s biggest booster. Plus he’s co-written several books, the latest of which is Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook.
ABOUT THEODORA LAMB
Theodora’s passion for non-profit causes led her to work in social media where she helps to strengthen online communities. She works with several organizations including the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation as an online community manager and with Mountain Equipment Co-op’s TheBigWild.org on wilderness protection across Canada. She’s also developed online communities for the BC Mental Health & Addictions Services, the Women’s Health and Research Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation. Theodora’s background in radio and television allows her to bridge her passion for storytelling, media and the web and when she can, she loves to write about redheads.
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!