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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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Leadership in the Social Economy

April 16, 2013
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Symposia Theatre in Centre Mont-Royal
2200 Mansfield St, Montréal

The McGill University Social Economy Initiative (SEI) is proud to host its inaugural flagship event Leadership in the Social Economy on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at the McGill Faculty Club and Conference Centre.
 
This event will feature a lively panel discussion about the social economy with The Right Honourable Paul Martin (Former Prime Minister of Canada), Dr. Henry Mintzberg (John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, McGill University) and Nancy Neamtan (President and Executive Director of the Chantier de l'économie sociale), facilitated by Stephen Huddart (President and CEO of the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation).
 
This event is free and open to the public. The discussion will be followed by a cocktail reception.

For more information, please contact Ariane Guay-Jadah at ariane.guay-jadah@mcgill.ca.

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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.
 
 

International Summit of Cooperatives 2014

A second International Summit of Cooperatives is set to take place next year and will unite co-operative business leaders from around the world.
Canadian financial co-operative Desjardins Group and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) will be teaming up again for this major gathering of the global co-operative and mutual community in Quebec City, 6–9 October, 2014.
With this second conference, the organisers are planning to create a forum for decision-makers from the top co-operatives and mutuals, and to make sure they leave the Summit with new ideas and strategies that will help to improve the performance of their enterprise.

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About the Summit:

The Summit is the biennial meeting place for leaders from the cooperative and mutalist worlds who want to discuss their concerns about the current and future challenges they all share.
During this international forum, they will be able to find ways of tackling the development and performance challenges they face. The Summit will also give them an opportunity to set up a worldwide network in order to create a real sphere of influence in economic and political arenas, and ensure that cooperatives and mutuals take their rightful place on the world stage.

The 2014 Summit is especially for:

  • 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives participants; 
  • presidents, CEOs and members of the board of directors of cooperatives and mutuals;
  • senior management and members of the board of directors of cooperative and mutual associations;
  • auxiliary members of cooperative and mutual associations (Centres for Studies, Research Chairs, universities, foundations, focus groups, etc.);
  • future business leaders of cooperatives and mutuals;
  • members of governments, diplomats and consuls of countries where the cooperative model is well-established;
  • representatives of the regulatory authorities;
  • representatives of supranational organizations;
  • academics, researchers and economists interested in the cooperative and mutualist model;
  • representatives of industries based on the cooperative and mutualist business models (forestry, agriculture, retail, goods and services, insurance, finances, health, housing, etc.);
  • local, provincial, national and international media.
Mark your calendars for this not-to-be-missed event taking place in the World heritage city of Quebec, Canada, from October 6 to 9, 2014.

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