Events
month | week | day | table | email this pageWe’ve all grown accustomed to conducting research online, but how do you know that the information you found last month is still relevant? Thanks to RSS, you don’t have to repeat your research ad infinitum to stay on top of an issue any more. With a few simple (and free!) tools, you use RSS to create powerful queries for research that stay updated, so you stay updated. This webinar will explain the mechanics, show you examples of tools, and work through a few real life examples.
Price: $60 for NTEN members, $100 for non-members
We'll be at this third annual don't-miss-it Vancouver-based (but globally-focused) blogging conference in force! We'll be at this third annual don't-miss-it Vancouver-based (but globally-focused) blogging conference in force! We'll be at this third annual don't-miss-it Vancouver-based (but globally-focused) blogging conference in force! Presented by Alexandra Samuel
Conversations about common interests are an important part of any community. Problem is, there hasn’t been a great way to capture the important tools and resources that get mentioned in all those conversations. Social bookmarking sites and RSS have tackled that problem and brought a whole host of new features to communities of interest. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how tags and RSS can be used to tie communities of interest together, celebrate the knowledge of the community, and help communities grow and flourish.
Price: $60 for NTEN members, $100 for non-members
Speakers: Scott Meyer, About.com
Giovanni Rodriguez, Hubbub PR
Craig Newmark, Craigslist
Alexandra Samuel, Social Signal
This session will focus on lessons that can be learned from non-business communities. We will hear from community managers and organizers running urban communities, sports based communities, political campaign communities and communities for social causes.
For more information on the Community 2.0 Conference: click here.
The latest generation of "Web 2.0" or social web strategies and tools offer powerful opportunities for organizations to improve the way they work, communicate their messages, and empower others. Learn how tools for online collaboration and community building like Flickr, MySpace, and YouTube can evolve your organization's online strategy to become smarter and more effective.
Presented by Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal and Jason Mogus of Communicopia. Co-sponsored by Hollyhock Leadership Institute & IMPACs, the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society.
Runs 6:30pm – 9:30pm on the first day and 9:30am – 4:30pm on the second. Located in Vancouver; address available upon registration. For info call 1-800-933-6339. Registration is open; sign up now!
The latest generation of "Web 2.0" or social web strategies and tools offer powerful opportunities for organizations to improve the way they work, communicate their messages, and empower others. Learn how tools for online collaboration and community building like Flickr, MySpace, and YouTube can evolve your organization's online strategy to become smarter and more effective.
Presented by Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal and Jason Mogus of Communicopia. Co-sponsored by Hollyhock Leadership Institute & IMPACs, the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society.
Runs 6:30pm – 9:30pm on the first day and 9:30am – 4:30pm on the second. Located in Vancouver; address available upon registration. For info call 1-800-933-6339. Registration is open; sign up now!
If you work at the intersection of technology and community-building, we hope you'll join us at Workspace (located at 21 Water Street in Gastown) for the March gathering of Social Tech Brewing's Vancouver chapter. Social Tech Brewing brings together folks from social media, nonprofit organizations, community service, social activism, social ventures and technology to share ideas -- and beer!
Our March event will bring together people who are using Second Life and other virtual worlds as environments for learning and community-building. Our speakers will be Chuck Hamilton, a Learning Solutions Leader for IBM, and Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director of the Masters in Digital Media program at Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC), a collaboration between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Chuck is leading the new IBM@PLAY program that was one of the winning initiatives to emerge out of IBM's Innovation Jam, and will give us a snapshot of how IBM is using Second Life as a space for collaboration and training. Gerri will give us the scoop on GNWC's Second Life campus, which is the most talked-about Second Life project to emerge out of the Lower Mainland.
Whether you're already exploring Second Life or other virtual worlds, or you're curious to find out what the buzz is all about, this is a great chance to meet some of the leading innovators and hear about some very exciting projects We also hope this event will attract people working in Second Life, other virtual worlds and the gaming community to come out and join us -- this a great chance for us to meet up in the real world. Presentations & discussion will start at 7:00 and wrap by 7:45. At about 8:00 we'll move across the street to 6 Acres pub for another hour of libations, gossip exchange, and general consipracy-hatching. Please RSVP and let us know you're coming. We hope to see you there!
2 p.m. panel session:
Does marketing work in Social Media and Virtual Worlds?
Moderator:
- Michael Seaton, Director, Digital Marketing, Scotiabank
Panel:
- Rob Cottingham, President, Social Signal
- David Jones, Senior Vice-President, Fleishman-Hillard Toronto
- Steve Osgoode, Digital Marketing & Business Development, HarperCollins Canada
To register, click here.
From the NetSquared web site:
In May 2007, 350 members of the NetSquared community are invited to the Cisco campus for a new technologies for social benefit project incubation platform. Building on the strength of the NetSquared community and the success of the first-ever NetSquared 2006 Conference, N2Y2 further extends our efforts to bring corporate and public philanthropist together with web developers, nonprofits, NGOs and the nonprofit-serving tech (NTAP) community. The challenge to us all will be to define and develop proposals with:
- the deepest social benefit potential
- utilization of innovative social tools and
- the strongest levels of collaboration and commitment.
In other words, let’s turn the best nonprofit technology ideas into real tools that can help change the world.
From the NetSquared web site:
In May 2007, 350 members of the NetSquared community are invited to the Cisco campus for a new technologies for social benefit project incubation platform. Building on the strength of the NetSquared community and the success of the first-ever NetSquared 2006 Conference, N2Y2 further extends our efforts to bring corporate and public philanthropist together with web developers, nonprofits, NGOs and the nonprofit-serving tech (NTAP) community. The challenge to us all will be to define and develop proposals with:
- the deepest social benefit potential
- utilization of innovative social tools and
- the strongest levels of collaboration and commitment.
In other words, let’s turn the best nonprofit technology ideas into real tools that can help change the world.
The Vancouver High-Tech Communicators' Exchange is hosting a presentation by Social Signal's Rob Cottingham and Raincity's Kris Krug on the opportunities and risks of social media for marketers:
What does the social media revolution mean to marketers and communicators? How is it redefining how we communicate, connect, network and build relationships with customers, stakeholders and even employees? How are companies using social media to increase visibility and build awareness? What are the risks and pitfalls of using social media? And what’s coming next?
6:00pm – 6:30 pm registration and networking
6:30 pm – Presentation
YWCA Hotel
733 Beatty Street – nr BC Place
RSVP to rsvp@htce.org
Cost is $15.00/person - EVENT IS SOLD OUT
No shows will be subject to charge.
Alex joins panelists Daniel Ross, Director of Nuestras Raíces and Aimee Thompson, Founder and Executive Director of Close to Home, for a discussion of the rapidly growing field of social entrepreneurship. Details here.
