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:

1. EYC Conference Programme (Word file 700Kb)
2. EYC Conference Programme (PDF 700Kb)

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)?

Register

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

Register.

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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