Want to get your nonprofit on the cloud? The seminar will cover free and low-cost solutions to get your organization online.
They’ll be covering Google Apps (gmail, docs and more, Google Adwords grants, Google Plus and Google Earth.

Discount: use the promotional code “nettuesday” for 50% off.

Register at http://googlefornonprofits2012.eventbrite.com/

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Google for Nonprofits Seminar

Thursday, 1 March 2012 from 08:30 to 14:00 (PT)
Vancouver, British Columbia

We will be going through

• Setting up your nonprofit with Google Apps.
• Using Gmail
• Getting on Google Grants in Canada which allows you to spend $10,000 a month on Google Adwords for free.
• Google+ pages and how to use them
• Google Earth
• And our product Rhino Donations, which is a free donation management tool that integrates in with Google’s products.
• learned (lunch is included in price).

http://googlefornonprofits2012.eventbrite.com/

Use the promotional code “nettuesday” coupon for 50% off.

What do you want to get out of the gatherings? Please let me know by filling out the six question survey below.

Also, the user group will be moving off meetup.com in favor of a new system provided by the Salesforce Foundation. New members can sign up at http://www.nettuesday.ca/salesforce-user-group/

Young? Care about things? Here’s some events of interest!

The BC Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship wants to get younger social entrepreneurs and innovators involved in their recommendations to the BC government.

A Lightning Pitch Event on March 6th will feature 90 second pitches from some of the most exciting initiatives from under 30′s in BC (and cash prizes!), and provide ample opportunity to network with emerging and established social change leaders, including members of the Council.

On March 10th we’re hosting a follow-up Speak Up!mini-conference for youth and youth serving organizations to generate more specific recommendations and feedback based on the Advisory Councils draft report (see below).

Information and registration links here:

Lightening Pitch Event (March 6th – $10)

Speak Up! (mini-conference) (March 10th – free)

Your Feedback is Needed - The BC Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship is about to present recommendations to the BC government on advancing social innovation in the province, and wants to hear from young social innovators before they finalize their report. Their draft report can be found here.

Please share your thoughts at the following link:http://bit.ly/wIp27x

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!

UPDATE

NetSquared Camp 2012 will be held on April 28.

More information: http://netsquared2012.eventbrite.ca/

I’d like to do another NetSquared Camp/unconference this spring. It’ll be fun and another way to connect the nonprofit community in Vancouver.

The Hive has offered to be our venue. Yay!

They currently have the following three Saturdays free:

Oh, and my preferred date is March 31 2012.

This video offers a good summary of the last event.

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

RSVP on Meetup.com

Our pals at PeerGiving ideas are presenting a series of free webinars to help you kickstart the new year. And they’re just 30 minutes each. Efficient!

March 6 – May 1 2012

Community Management  101
Online Training for Charities & Non-Profits
Story Telling, Social Media and Creative Fundraising Campaigns

Series Overview
Do you want to know how to implement online story telling, build your social media presence and inject creativity into your fundraising campaigns?

We want to let you know about am upcoming webinar series from Peer Giving. Their weekly “Training 101” series provides resources and discussion on building strategy, using analytics, utilizing social media campaigns and more.

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!

 

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Therefore: Google Plus Page

Keep on top of nonprofit news and gossip on our Google Plus page.

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