I joined the NetSquared Global Leadership Council at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Good times!

But I was ambushed by Vanessa Rhinesmith, who interviewed me and fellow meetup leader April Kyle.

OH @NetTuesdayYVR last night: “I’ve learned more here in an hour & half than at three days of the AFP conference. And this was free.” #ntvan

— Chad Leaman (@chadleaman) April 4, 2012

HUGE thanks to Darian Kovacs for putting the event together. This is the first time that a monthly meetup was planned, promoted and hosted without my involvement, and I couldn’t be happier that Net Tuesday is evolving from a solo project into a self-sustaining volunteer-led institution.

- Eli

P.S. I’m also grateful for Chad Leaman‘s good ears.

This is what we are about: We plant seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capability.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

Along with Anna and Gregory, I have schemed up WOCxNTC. If you’re a Web of Change alumni going to the NTC conference this April (or if you call San Francisco home) we’d love to have you join us.

We’ll gossip, have a snack, grab a drink and perhaps wander off afterwards to join one of the Progressive Parties.
In summary: we’ll have some fun!

http://wocxntc.eventbrite.ca/

Please RSVP to confirm your attendance. Seating is limited to 12.

Date: Wednesday, April 4. 7pm.

Location:
Urban Tavern
333 O’Farrell St. San Francisco, CA 94102
Cross Street: Mason St.
(415) 923-4400

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.

RSVP on Meetup.com

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.

RSVP on Meetup.com

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.

RSVP on Meetup

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.

RSVP on Meetup

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!