Welcome to the Twibe
Heather Morrison’s session “Making Twitter Your Best Friend” – part of My Charity Connects at Net Change Week, inspired a flurry of on the spot Twitter sign-ups. If you joined because your former best friend unfriended you on Facebook, I say, “Forget ‘em.” They were just bringing you down anyways. Besides, if you fall in [...]
Net Change Week 2011 daily updates!
We’re putting together a continuously updated Storify on all the events of Net Change Week 2011. We will be adding new content- videos, pics, commentary, tweets, audience reactions, speaker updates- all day/week long. Stay tuned for the action, hope you’re all enjoying the week so far! [View the story "NetChange Week 2011" on Storify]
Coach houses over universities?
Last night saw a panel of thought leaders at the Net Change Week event The Edge of Academe. The event featured Mark Surman, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, Peppino Ortoleva, Prof. Storia dei mezzi di comunicazione at the Università di Torino, Brian Cantwell Smith, Prof. Information Studies at the University of Toronto, and Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Assoc. Prof. of English at the University of Montreal. [...]
My Charity Connects – Closing Keynote (Sean Moffitt)
Sean Moffitt, Founder & Chief Evangelist of Agent Wildfire and Co-Author of Wikibrands, gave the closing keynote at the two-day My Charity Connects event held at MaRSDD during Net Change Week 2011. Sean tapped into his marketing experience to speak about the importance of branding and use of social media to progress your organization in [...]
The Happy Circle and the Sea Monkey
Katya Andresen of Network for Good kicked off day 2 of My Charity Connects with a great keynote on what actually motivates people to donate – and what doesn’t. Using a blend of behavioural economics, cognitive dissonance, the power of emotional appeals, great videos, and plain old common sense, Katya helped attendees learn about how [...]
My Charity Connects – Opening Keynote: Amy Sample Ward
Net Change Week kicked off this morning with a keynote speech by Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. We created a Storify using the tweets and pictures taken at the event for those who missed it – enjoy the recap! [View the story "My Charity Connects - Opening Keynote (Amy Ward)" on [...]
Net Change Week takes to Storify
Thanks to our most fabulous interns, Jaclyn Quinn and Nabeel Ahmed, we have a dedicated Storify team for Net Change Week. They thought it would be a good idea to post their first Storify story featuring 2010 events, so you get the idea about why we think Net Change is the coolest event to be at [...]
Know your mobile
As Canadians, we love our cell phones. At the end of 2010, Canadian wireless phone subscribers numbered 24.5 million—that’s an incredible 72% of the population. Canadians send 186 million text messages every day. 18.1 billion mobile applications are expected to be downloaded in 2011, growing to 33 billion in 2014. The numbers just keep stacking [...]
Volunteer at Net Change for an all access pass
Feeling like you want to take in all the Net Change action and have energy to burn? Become a Net Change Agent this year and help us make the week bigger and better than ever. We have multiple opportunities available. Last year more than 40 people volunteered and provided all online participants with a full [...]
The future of change making is here
Whether you’ve attended Net Change Week events before or are coming for the first time, you can be sure to find something to inspire your thinking and propel your change-making work. I recently attended the Best Practice session in Social Technology at MaRS. Although I work in this space every day, Matt Thompson opened my [...]
