Posts from — November 2007
Mini conference: Engage Your Community
Update: the Conference was held in April 2008 and was a great success. This information is retained as an archive. See the workshop notes for details from each session.
Engage Your Community: Using Blogs, YouTube and other Cool Tools to achieve your group’s goals
Do you want to know how your tangata whenua, community or voluntary group / organisation can connect with volunteers, staff, and other stakeholders more easily, immediately and efficiently?
See quick details of the conference, or download the full and detailed programme, with map, list of workshops and presenters and other information. We have it in two formats:
Do you want to learn to use the internet for fundraising, collaborating, promotion, advocacy, cost-cutting, service provision, and more?
And do all this with very little technical knowledge and at very little cost (often free)?
Waikato 2020 Communications Trust, a voluntary organisation dedicated to helping the community benefit from computer technologies, will hold a one-day conference, Engage Your Community: Using Blogs, YouTube and Other Cool Tools to Achieve Your Group’s Goals, on Tuesday, April 22, 2008.
The conference, to be held in the Waikato Management School of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, will include a series of practical workshops led by experts and community group leaders who are currently using these tools.
Some recently confirmed workshops and speakers include:
Presentations:
- Priorities in developing NZ’s Community & Voluntary sector
- Hon Ruth Dyson, Minister for Community & Voluntary Sector
- Developing capabilities in the Community & Voluntary Sector
- Maria Humphries, Associate Professor, Waikato Management School
- The new internet: Friends, connections and community
- Miraz Jordan, Wellington-based writer and Webguide Webmaster
Workshops:
- Fundraising on the internet: Radio Heritage’s use of CafePress and Paypal
- David Ricquish, Founding Chairman, Radio Heritage Foundation
- How Auckland WEAs uses Basecamp for project management
- Deborah Radford, Auckland Workers Educational Association
- Christine Herzog, Auckland Workers Educational Association
- Using blogs to develop an online support community for clients
- Hayden Sanders, QUIT Group
- Virtual rewards — low cost, no-cost social media solutions for your organisation
- Catherine Arrow, specialist in social media and PR practitioner
- Holding virtual meetings and conferences using N’ing and Skype
- Debashish Munshi, Department Chair of Management Communication, Waikato Management School
- Podcasts, Live Streaming, and other great ways your local alternative radio broadcaster can help you be the darling of the New Media
- Phil Grey, General Manager, Community Radio Hamilton
- Online project support from wikispaces
- Stephen Blyth, community ICT development worker
- Using Moodle as a virtual office
- Michelle Mason, Waikato 2020 Communications Trust Webmaster
- Dean Hutt, Moodle Administrator, Wintec
- Ted Zorn, Chair of Waikato 2020 Communications Trust; Professor, Management Communication, Waikato Management School
- Set up a website / blog in 10 minutes flat!
- Stephen Harlow, Waikato 2020 Communications Trust Web developer
- Vanessa Mohi-Goodchild, Waikato 2020 Communications Trust Web developer
- Digital storytelling
- Stephen Harlow, Waikato 2020 Communications Trust Web developer
If you’re interested in contributing to the conference, submit a Workshop Proposal (50Kb Word file). Download the linked file, complete it and return it by email to Prof Ted Zorn.
If you have other questions, contact Ted Zorn, chair of Waikato 2020 Communications Trust, at (07) 838-4776 or email at tzorn@mngt.waikato.ac.nz.
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November 30, 2007 No Comments
A local social network
Otara students have designed a social networking site to help local people learn together online and become more familiar with technology. “The Haps” will go live in 2008.
[Via Radio New Zealand News Headlines: Hopes Otara networking site will be big hit.]
November 30, 2007 No Comments
NZ wiki for internet information
a wiki for NZ connectivity. This wiki will hopefully cover various aspects of connectivity in New Zealand, ranging from Internet connections, mobile connections, through to voice connections. Technical advice about modems, settings, and other devices will hopefully find its way here.
November 25, 2007 No Comments
YouTube and 850 million hungry people
850 million people go to bed hungry each night. The World Food Program is calling for YouTube videos to help solve the problem, as reported by Tech News on ZDNet in U.N. aid agency seeks YouTube ads:
The United Nations’ food aid agency has called on budding filmmakers to help it raise awareness of hunger and bring the reality of abject poverty and suffering to the “YouTube generation.”
The World Food Program (WFP) launched a contest on Wednesday for “edgy 30- or 60-second video(s) that will make the online community buzz about global hunger,” it said.
The five best films will be posted on the WFP’s YouTube site, with the overall winner receiving a trip to one of the agency’s relief operations.
Filmmakers stand a better chance of winning if they get play on blogs or networking sites like Facebook or MySpace before the competition’s July 2008 deadline, WFP said.
For inspiration the World Food Program have posted their own YouTube video, Don’t be a pig!, on their own YouTube channel hungerbytes. The video is a rather shocking depiction of people stuffing themselves in an ‘eating contest’. They say of the competition:
The goal is to make a top rated viral video that creates a real buzz and gets people thinking about hunger.
November 24, 2007 No Comments
Emails and Fundraising
There are good, specific, practical tips about using email as part of your fundraising efforts in this post by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson: Wild Apricot Blog : 6 Unique Online Fundraising Techniques for Your Nonprofit (Part 3 of 6):
Email marketing presents one of the most cost efficient ways for nonprofits to reach their supporters.
November 22, 2007 No Comments
