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WordPress: Making Things Easier - A TechTogether Webinar

 

Websites are getting more complex and more involved every day. Terms like HTML 5, Web 2.0, and PHP can be intimidating. As they become more complicated, web sites are also becoming even more important. When people want to find out more about something, often their first stop is the web. Google is hit with over 4.7 billion searches every day. You can't afford to be without a web presence but developing and maintaining a website can be incredibly expensive if you have to hire someone to do it. With WordPress, you can do most of the work yourself very easily without having to know much, if any, code and training others to use it is simple. We'll talk about how easily it can be learned and used without sacrificing any power or flexibility. 
 
The presentation will be Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 2:00pm in the GreenIt Classroom (links will be sent out via email prior to the presentation if you have signed up). It should be approximately 15 minutes in length.

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TECHtogether is an innovative cross-sectoral partnership that transforms how small non-profits use technology day-to-day to communicate ideas and share knowledge. The Canadian CED Network is a proud partner in this project.

Telling a Digital Story - Tech Together Webinar

 

Telling a digital story

From the time that we are young, we are told stories. These stories help to shape our lives and expand our language through reference and metaphor. Stories remain a large part of our life regardless of age and are a valuable resource. Telling the story of your organization can help you attract and keep clients and opportunities. Stories allow people to get a better understanding about your organization and to connect. There are so many ways to tell a digital story, be it pictures, videos, social media or the much more traditional blog or article post, you really can tell your story your way. We'll take a brief look at how telling a good digital story can help you.
 
The presentation will be Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 2:00pm in the GreenIt Classroom (links will be sent out via email prior to the presentation if you have signed up). It should be approximately 15 minutes in length.

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TECHtogether is an innovative cross-sectoral partnership that transforms how small non-profits use technology day-to-day to communicate ideas and share knowledge. The Canadian CED Network is a proud partner in this project.

Neighbours: Programs and Policies

 

Join John McKnight and Jim Diers - two of the most important thinkers and advocates for neighbours in North America today - for an unprecedented gathering exploring programs that advance neighbourhood resilience and capacity.
 
This event will be held from June 10-12, 2013 in Kitchener, Ontario and will bring together some of the most passionate leaders from across North America on the topic of neighbours and neighbourhood engagement.  It will be an interactive time of learning in unique settings, focused exclusively on the topic of neighbours and neighborhood engagement. One highlight: A dialogue about – and possible co-creation of - cutting-edge policies that cities can adopt to promote citizenship, belonging and neighbourliness.
 
Be part of this important gathering of some of the most recognized leaders and thinkers on the possibility of neighbourhoods who, together with the Tamarack Team, invite you to this unprecedented learning event!

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Strengthening Alternative Systems through Diffusion of Innovations | Webinar

Monday, March 18th
9am (PST); 12pm (EST)

 

Discussing: How do we successfully diffuse and  scale what is working for other contexts into our own?

This presentation will focus on social innovations in differing contexts, such as fair trade, community waste, social franchising, and co-operative banking, schools and social care. Participants will walk away with insight regarding the significance of particular types of intermediaries and federated structures as means of expanding (and defending) these systems.

Featured Presenter:

Robin Murray is an economist whose work has recently focused on co-operative development and social innovation.  He was author of ‘Co-operation in the Age of Google’ a report on strategy for Co-operatives UK (the umbrella body for co-operatives in Britain), a co-author of ‘The Open Book of Social Innovation’ and is currently working on a text on Co-operative Accumulation.  He is a Fellow of the Young Foundation, for whom he co-authored two books on social innovation, and is also a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
 
This webinar will continue the discussion from BALTA’s recent webinar with Pat Conaty, which focused on how innovations develop and spread within the social economy.
 
Robin prefers not to use the word ‘scale’ because of its association with mass production, and finds it more helpful to think in terms of generative diffusion and the gradual development and strengthening of alternative systems.  Pat discussed this process in the case of community land trusts, community finance, and local energy projects.
 
Robin will look at differing experiences in such fields as fair trade, community waste, social franchising, and co-operative banking, schools and social care. They suggest the significance of particular types of intermediaries and federated structures as means of expanding (and defending) these systems.
 
 

Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact

Collective Impact results when actors from different sectors commit to a common agenda for solving a complex social issue. Backbone Organizations play a complex, behind-the-scenes role in the success of these collective impact initiatives. The Backbone Organization's role spans six major activities, requires a diversity of skills and is essential to maintain alignment across the partners. The effectiveness with which a Backbone Organization fulfills its role often determines the success or failure of the Collective Impact Initiative as a whole.
Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact is a multi-day interactive workshop designed specifically for the leaders of Leadership Roundtables, Coordinating Committees or Backbone Organizations of mature collective impact initiatives. The Tamarack Institute and FSG have partnered to develop this dynamic learning experience to offer leaders of Backbone Organizations an advanced learning opportunity designed exclusively for collaborative leaders.

As a participant you will:

  • Strengthen your ability to guide your collective impact initiative toward results;
  • Learn from, and build connections with, other experienced leaders of backbone organizations across a range of social issues; and
  • Participate in creating new resources and tools for the field of community collaborative and collective impact practitioners, which will be disseminated after the workshop

Workshop sessions will include topics such as:

  • Deeply understanding the roles and impact strategies of the backbone organization;
  • Developing and learning from shared measurement;
  • Community Engagement to build the will of your community;
  • Making Collaborative governance effective;
  • Sustaining funding for collective impact over the long term;
  • Working in complexity and the importance of adaptive leadership; and
  • Getting to true impact and systems change
Learn how your team can benefit from this amazing learning opportunity. Special rates are available for teams of three or more who attend together.

A Spotlight on Young Social Entrepreneurs: Webinar

 

 

March 26
12:00 - 1:00 pm PST

Young people the world over are leading a new wave of social innovation and social entrepreneurship- creating social change, supporting community economies and forging new ways of work. Learn from young people in our communities about what motivates them and inspires them about social entrepreneurship, what are some of the successes and challenges they’ve faced along the way. This webinar is especially relevant for anyone interested in applying for our partnership training and business development program with Community Micro-Lending, Launch!

Presenters: 

  • Kanika Gupta: founder of Social Journal (SoJo), a web based learning tool geared towards youth passionate about social change and building social ventures. The development of SoJo was influenced by Gupta’s master’s thesis experience in Canada-wide study on the factors influencing the start-up of youth-initiated social ventures.
  • Julia Norman: founder of social enterprise, the Didi Society, which is working towards empowering women through fair, direct trade and educating local youth on social justice issues and using marketing, sales strategies and traditional cooperative values.
  • Adam Olsen: is one of the Olsen family members who started local small business Salish Fusion Knitwear, producing modern knitted products with inspiration from Coast Salish art. The small business is providing employment opportunities for the local knitters and supporting the local art. 

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Youth Social Entrepreneurship Webinar Series

This webinar is being hosted as part of the Youth Social Entrepreneur Webinar Series:

Are you a young person interested in social entrepreneurship? Or an organization working with young people interested in learning more about how you can incorporate social enterprise into your work? 
 
Starting March 2013, The Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria is launching a new webinar series on Youth Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Canadian CED Network. The webinars are an opportunity to learn about how young people and youth serving organizations are using social enterprise in creating sustainable livelihoods. The webinars will reflect on the successes and challenges of operating successful and well-functioning youth-led and youth serving social enterprises. Presenters will discuss a variety of local, regional and national best practice examples.

Who should attend: 

  • Young people interested in social entrepreneurship
  • Non-profit or other youth serving organizations interested in using a social enterprise model with their clients
  • Funders, community partners, local government stakeholders interested in learning how to scale up the sector.
UPCOMING:  
Also look out for our third webinar on ‘Animating Youth Social Enterprise’: the Role of Funders and Partners, coming in April.
 
This webinar will look at some best practice examples of what funders and community partners can and are doing to support strengthen opportunities for youth social enterprise, locally and nationally.

 

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