Open Source conference in Wellington – January 2010
Even if you are not a FOSS aficionado, this event might well make a good introduction to the genre and its a rare enough opportunity to make the connections as an Aussie event comes to NZ. linux.conf.au [Read more →]
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December 17, 2009 1 Comment
E-engage your community – putting IT to work in an organisation
Disclaimer: as a trustee of the 2020 Communications Trust I am trying to find a way to scale up this conference and workshop programme to a national level.
Wellington IT Trust is mounting another E-engage Your community event in November for non-profit organisations to make better use of their IT investment. This is a great way to gain some practical knowledge about the role of IT in meeting your real-world objectives and mixing with a bunch of smart people who have the answers to almost all the questions you might have that start, "how the hell do we .....?" Engage Your Community - a web conference for community organisations [Read more →]
October 29, 2009 No Comments
Making Links Conference in Melbourne in November
Making Links describes itself as the conference where Social Action and Technology converge and this year's event labels itself as Sustaining Communities in Tough Times. Registrations for presenters are oopen now; if you get to present, or decide to go, don't forget to call home, we'd be happy to hear from you inside the event.
Two major challenges face the world today: the global economic crisis and environmental sustainability.
[...] Making Links Conference 2009 asks: how are non-profit organisations meeting these twin challenges? [Read more →]
May 25, 2009 No Comments
Connecting Up Conference lays down the challenge
Thanks to Stephen Blyth for the conference updates. To get an idea of the overall tenor of the event, have a look at Connecting Up CEO Doug Jacquier’s Opening address. The text is at his blog, The Blog Stump, the video for those who have what Jacquier calls Fraudband, is here
The bottom line out of all of that is that if you are waiting for governments to help you develop your capacity then your funding strategy may as well consist of buying lottery tickets.
Couple that with the greatest economic crisis we have faced since the Depression, created by the greed of those least likely to want to pay their taxes, to say we have a challenge before us goes beyond the level of understatement. [Read more →]
May 15, 2009 No Comments
Emphasis on Social media at Connecting Up conference, Sydney
When the Connecting Up Australia conference compere Doug Jacquier asked everyone to tap on their keyboards quietly, there was almost a sense of surprise. Among the community group reps, advisors, consultants, salespeople and government officials, there are actually only a few with laptops. [Read more →]
May 13, 2009 2 Comments
