The event will be held at The Hive on Saturday, April 28 and admission is $20.

There are just 80 spots available, so please RSVP soon to ensure you get a ticket.

Tickets and more information: http://netsquared2012.eventbrite.ca/

Hope to see you there!

Please join us at the third Vancouver Salesforce nonprofit user group meeting.

This will be an informal gathering of nonprofit employees, volunteers and allies who are either working with Salesforce or just interested in learning more.

A rough plan for the night

• help beginners with their first import of data into Salesforce (bring your spreadsheets and laptops!)
• discuss email integrations with Salesforce from the App Exchange.  (Homework - Groundwire’s email service provider review.
• put our collective brains to whatever challenges the group presents.

Snacks will be provided courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation.

Net Tuesday is proud to have Communicopia’s Jason Mogus presenting at our February 7 meetup. NOTE: We expect this event to be very popular, so registration is capped. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

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There has been a sea change recently creating new models for how social change organizations (or start up businesses) structure themselves to accomplish a social good. Network organizations, typically those “born after the Internet”, are smaller, nimble, less hierarchical, highly collaborative and deeply social by nature. Their leadership, culture, structure, programs, and outcomes are often quite different from those of traditionally structured NGO’s.

As these structures are more aligned with the fundamental organizing principles of the web, done right this enables these organizations to punch far above their weight online. In this session we will discuss:

• the differences between network orgs and more traditional NGO’s
• why network orgs are an adaptation to the unique challenges and opportunities of our times
• why traditional NGO’s struggle with managing digital innovation
• why network orgs create better online campaigns – including many examples!
• some fundamental principles of network centric campaigns

Come with your own examples and expect a fulsome discussion on the benefits and limitations of this controversial hypothesis.

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LOCATION
W2 Media Cafe
111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Doors at 5:30 PM
Starts at 6:00 PM
Wraps at 7:30 PM

Jason Mogus is the principal strategist of Communicopia, a Gastown based firm that has been leading transformative digital projects for social change institutions since 1993. Jason has worked with some highly successful network orgs, including the TckTckTck climate coalition, Nothing But Nets campaign, and Web of Change, as well as for many large NGO’s, governments, and sustainable businesses both locally and globally. For a full bio: http://communicopia.com/company/jason-mogus

Suggested background reading:

• http://www.bethkanter.org/the-networked-nonprofit/
• http://communicopia.com/insights/what-is-a-netcentric-campaign

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Could you do more with Google Analytics? Non-profit website publisher Jeannine Mitchell shows how she got a new perspective on raw data from the Google Analytics module installed on her (Drupal CMS) website after local web analytics expert Behdad showed her how to create custom measurements known as ‘segmentation’. Behdad will be present to field people’s questions about web analytics.

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When

Tuesday, January 10 2012

DOORS AT 5:30 PM

EVENT STARTS AT 6:00 PM

WRAP AT 7:30 PM

Where

W2 Media Cafe

Admission

Free, with $5 suggested donation.

Presenters
Jeannine Mitchell, an award-winning finance writer, heads the non-profit Student Finance 101 Society, helping students manage student loans and other debt at www.debt101.ca

Behdad Barati
A well rounded IT expert, Behdad has been involved in Web Analytics for close to four years.
Behdad is also the organizer of the Web Analytics Champs meetup. http://www.meetup.com/Web-Analytics-Champs-WACH/

OUR SPONSOR

Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2011-12 season.

They do cool things. Check them out!

Slides

Presentation

Q&A

It’s not just your Communications and Fundraising teams that should be leveraging online tools.  Many non-profits are looking at new ways to use technology to fulfill their mission, including the delivery of programs through technology.  Just as many universities have focused on e-Learning to deliver education to students, non-profits organizations can also utilize e-Learning to deliver association services.

This session will share tools and techniques that can be used to deliver non-profit services online.  Looking beyond facebook and twitter, this session will cover both synchronous (webinar) solutions as well as asynchronous tools that are available.  There will be a focus on sharing best practices, lessons learned from the education sector, and how your non-profit can get started with e-Learning to deliver association services.

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When

Tuesday, December 6 2011

DOORS AT 5:30 PM

EVENT STARTS AT 6:00 PM

WRAP AT 7:30 PM

Where

W2 Media Cafe

Admission

Free, with $5 suggested donation.

 

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Chad Leaman is the e-Learning Manager for the Neil Squire Society, working directly with people with disabilities and empowering them through technology. Over the last eight years, he has led the organization’s growth of online learning and connecting the association to various rural and aboriginal disability centers. He has spoken at numerous conferences on themes of e-Learning and accessibility, including the Innovative Professor Conference, MoodleMoot, and the Justice Institute Online Course Showcase. His current projects include running a network of free-computer sites in Burnaby; creating an online one-on-one computer tutoring program; and supporting the technology enabling an online employment program that reaches across Canada.  Chad also sits on the other side of the online learning environment, completing his Certified Association Executive certification through online learning.

chadl@neilsquire.ca | @chadleaman

OUR SPONSOR

Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2011-12 season.

They do cool things. Check them out!

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When: Wednesday, November 16. 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Where: The HiVE. 210 – 128 W Hastings St

Processing donations and payments is a pain.

First you need to enter the credit card into into a Point Of Sale machine (if  you have even have one), then you need to record that payment on the individual or organization’s record (if you’ve got a database). There’s a lot of hardware, paper and potential for error.

IATS Brickwork might be a solution for you. It removes the hardware and automatically adds donations to your Salesforce Contacts because you enter the credit card info directly into Salesforce. Come check out the demo. Make them hard questions!

What is IATS?

A credit card processing company that specialized in serving nonprofits. They have a website.

What is Brickwork?

Check it out on the Salesforce App Exchange.

Here’s what IATS says:

Process both one-time and recurring credit card or ACH transactions from within any Salesforce CRM edition. All credit card types are accepted for both US and Canadian transactions. Let BRICKWORK by IATS Payments help your organization today!

Integrates seamlessly into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM Editions.

Give your donors the choice of making single or recurring gift donations with their Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards in US or Canadian dollars.

Create seamless, online donation pages with the integrated IATS product, AURA.

BRICKWORK is a FREE native Salesforce Application that brings the power of IATS Payments processing directly to your Salesforce environment. Whether donations come over the phone or through your website, BRICKWORK enables your organization to process credit card payments and maximize revenue.

Integrated into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM editions, BRICKWORK eliminates the hassle of manual data entry by automating the payment information and record creation. Real-time processing allows for greater workload efficiency and instantaneous results. With the ability to create donation pages directly from the AURA custom tab, taking your fundraising efforts online has never been easier.

As a Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified company, IATS ensures all transactions are handled with absolute security and confidentiality.

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P.S. We’ll supply snacks!

Photos from Vancouver ChangeCamp 2010.

Gosh it looks like fun. You should get a ticket to the 2011 event!

http://changecamp2011.eventbrite.com/

RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com

This group is for anyone at any level using Salesforce in the nonprofit, education or social entrepreneur sectors.
Or even for those are aren’t using it yet, but are merely curious. We’ll be talking about CRM (customer relationship management) issues in general too.

This is your meetup, so the first meeting will be an informal discussion that will allow us to figure out the needs of the nonprofit community and determine what you want from a Salesforce meetup.

And while you’re waiting for the meetup to start why not apply for the Salesforce Foundation software grant?

We encourage neophytes to seasoned developers to share information with the larger community.
What’s working for you? What’s a struggle? What would you want to get out of a Salesforce meetup?

P.S. We’ll supply snacks courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation. (yay!)

RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com/

DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

LOCATION:
The HiVE
210 – 128 W Hastings St

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Meetup.com OR Facebook

LOCATION

W2 Media Cafe

111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

DATE AND TIME

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

• Doors at 5:30 PM
• Starts at 6:00 PM
• Wraps at 7:30 PM (but stay for drinks!)

Governments around the world are experimenting with social media as a site of civic engagement. Online public participation is a young field however, and little is known about the benefits or limitations of these projects. Key issues that must be considered include anonymity, privacy, government activity in privately operated spaces, demographic diversity, delineating between crowd-appropriate and expert-appropriate tasks, community building and more.

Vancouver was recently the home of an innovative Facebook based public conversation. Hundreds of Vancouver residents and commuters participated in a July 2011 Facebook conversation about the City of Vancouver’ Transportation Plan. Using a uniquely developed Facebook app, this ground breaking social media conversation asked Vancouverites to share their own commuting stories, learn about key issues, propose transportation recommendations to the City. This project was both an innovative engagement exercise in partnership with the City of Vancouver and it was the focus of Susanna Haas Lyons’s masters thesis research with the University of British Columbia.

The City has already written a response to recommendations resulting from the conversation, and these ideas will be considered for integration into the City’s draft transportation plan. Results of the research are emerging.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Susanna Haas Lyons is a public engagement specialist who develops strategy and provides training for better conversations between the public and decision makers. Bridging online and face-to-face methods, Susanna has worked on some of North America’s largest and most complex citizen engagement projects. Currently, Susanna is researching collaborative policy development, with a focus in digital engagement practices, at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, the Environment and Sustainability. She is also a senior network associate with AmericaSpeaks, a global leader in large-scale public participation. Previously, Susanna was project coordinator with the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Mohn Prize. She holds a certificate in Public Participation from the International Association for Public Participation, and is an advisor to the Alberta Climate Dialogue project.

OUR SPONSOR

Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2011-12 season. They do cool things. Check them out!