My latest post for NetSquared.
Author: Elijah van der Giessen
Host of Vancouver's #Tech4Good meetup TechSoup Connect Canada.
Talking Good with Elijah van der Giessen
An interview with Rich Polt of Communicate Good on heroes, visions and the meaning of life. Plus jokes!
Vancouver Social Media Surgery
My latest experiment: a “Social Media Surgery”, and idea stolen from Manchester Net Tuesday.
Online community management: secrets of the trade
Net Tuesday June 12 2012
Spring has spring and it’s time for a change.
I left the David Suzuki Foundation (after five years!) on May 10, 2012.
I have taken on a couple of short-term contracts while I decide what’s next. You can now find me consulting for:
- NetSquared, as a community curator supporting the Localproject.
- Rainforest Solutions Project, doing social media for the Take it Taller campaign
- David Suzuki Foundation, helping orient my replacement.
So much for my dreams of summer underemployment!
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.
I went to the Web of Change conference in 2007 and it was a life-changing event (for the good!)
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!
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
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