Events and community for nonprofits curious about technology.
I virtually attended this event via their livestream from Seattle, Washington, while the volunteers including my Vancouver friends tweeted on site. This is my online curation for the attendees, for my non profit friends across the world and whoever may be interested, including some extra links.
How can your non-profit ‘win’ on Facebook? Many organizations measure their success on this platform using likes, comments, and shares. That’s why Darren Barefoot and Theo Lamb of Capulet Communications decided to look at what actually works on Facebook, and what type of content tends to gather high engagement.
Continue reading “The science of Facebook pages: how non-profits increase engagement on Facebook”
How do you launch half a dozen corporate websites, send dozens of eblasts, direct mailings and newsletters to raise millions without an office (or employees). Ben Johnson goes through his favourite tools for project management, testing, databases, email service providers to show how you can scale your work to be a digital-first organization.
When: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 5:30 PM To 7:30 PM
Where: W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC
ABOUT BEN JOHNSON 
Ben is the Managing Director of Frontier Consulting. His background includes founding a startup to promote micro-volunteering to altruistic tech-savvy Millenials right out of university, later holding marketing positions with Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver and Island Savings in Victoria, picking up his CMA designation on the way. Ben lives in Victoria and has been tackling the responsibilities of fatherhood for over three years now. You can find Ben on Twitter at @mrbenjohnson.
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!
Via our friends at Demonstrating Value.
We’ve given the Demonstrating Value website a major makeover, and now we’re excited to share it with you. With new features and simplified site navigation, you can now enjoy quick and easy access to everything you need on the website.
On the evening of Monday September 24, at an event co-hosted by Vancity Community Foundation and SAP, three local social enterprises will present their recently completed performance snapshots. There will also be a panel discussion where enterprise managers and the consultants who helped them will speak on the benefits and challenges of creating Demonstrating Value snapshots.
Garth Yule, program manager of evaluation and community impact at Vancity Community Foundation will be there to share features of the new Demonstrating Value website, including the newgallery of performance snapshots, and present on dashboarding software from SAP.
Also, learn about SAP technology donations, connecting skilled volunteers with social enterprises, SAP green team and the Passion Capital Awards.
Date: Monday September 24, 2012
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 (doors open at 5:00)
Location: SAP, 910 Mainland St., Vancouver
Registration: $5 donation can be made upon registration or at the door.
Register now at http://dv-website-launch.
For more information, contact Demonstrating Value or visit www.demonstratingvalue.org.
Do you have an idea or program that addresses the social, health or environmental challenges facing BC communities? Do you know someone who does?BC Ideas is an online competition that asks British Columbians to submit innovative ideas or programming that address our province’s toughest social challenges. This collaborative competition is open to all British Columbians and will provide over $250,000 to the top entries.
Participating in BC Ideas will give you a platform to share your ideas for social innovation, from concepts to established programs. By entering the competition you can gain profile for your idea or program, receive feedback from experts on social innovation, and secure funding for your work.
Visit www.bcideas.ca for more information or contact April at adutheil@changemakers.com.
The event will be streamed live at http://www.livestream.com/w2media
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.
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.
I’m tickled that I was asked to be a presenter at the August 14 Social Media Club Vancouver event.
I accept!
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 |
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.
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.
You asked for regional Google+ hangouts. We haven’t delivered on these yet, although the NetSquared team has been offering experimental office hours.
The survey showed that there was less interest in these areas. We’ll ignore them for now!
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.
Taking local to the next level
Strengthening your local group
