Elijah van der Giessen

I help nonprofits build community.

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May 9: Hot Topics in Nonprofit Technology: AI, VR, and Mastodon [IN-PERSON] — April 19, 2023

May 9: Hot Topics in Nonprofit Technology: AI, VR, and Mastodon [IN-PERSON]

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TechSoup Connect Vancouver is returning with our first in-person event since COVID-19. Whooo!

Join us for a return to in-person events with an evening of innovation and inspiration at Hot Topics in Nonprofit Technology: AI, VR, and Mastodon. This cutting-edge event with Digital Strategist Jai Djwa will explore the latest trends and advancements in nonprofit technology, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the Mastodon platform.

🗓️ May 9, 2023. 6-7:30 pm.
🗺️ Creekside Community Centre, Multipurpose Room 1, 1 Athletes Way, Vancouver, V5Y 0B1
🎟️ https://events.techsoup.org/e/mghs6s/

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Hot Topics in Nonprofit Technology: AI, VR, and Mastodon [IN-PERSON]

Get ready to dive into the exciting world of AI and discover how it can revolutionize the way nonprofits work. Learn about the latest applications of AI in nonprofit operations, fundraising, and donor engagement, and explore the potential of this technology to drive meaningful change in the sector.

Next, take a journey into the world of virtual reality and explore how it can be used to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. Discover how VR can help you tell your story in a more engaging and immersive way, and learn about the latest VR tools and technologies that are transforming the nonprofit landscape.

Finally, discover the power of Mastodon, the decentralized social network that is changing the way nonprofits engage with their supporters. Learn how Mastodon can help you build a community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about your cause, and explore the latest Mastodon features and best practices.

Throughout the event, Digital Strategist Jai Djwa will share his expert insights and provide practical tips and strategies that you can implement in your nonprofit today. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to learn, connect, and innovate with the best and brightest in the nonprofit technology space.

NetSquared Camp 2012: April 28 at The HiVE — February 4, 2012

NetSquared Camp 2012: April 28 at The HiVE

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NetSquared logoI’m excited to announce NetSquared Camp 2012, an intimate gathering of Vancouver’s online campaigners. This unconference will be a chance for our community to gather and share our hard-won best practices, war stories, and victories!

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!

Vancouver Salesforce Nonprofit User Group: Processing credit cards with IATS Brickwork — November 1, 2011

Vancouver Salesforce Nonprofit User Group: Processing credit cards with IATS Brickwork

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Eventbrite logoRSVP on Eventbrite

When: Wednesday, November 16. 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Where: The HiVE. 210 – 128 W Hastings St

Processing donations and payments is a pain.

First you need to enter the credit card into into a Point Of Sale machine (if  you have even have one), then you need to record that payment on the individual or organization’s record (if you’ve got a database). There’s a lot of hardware, paper and potential for error.

IATS Brickwork might be a solution for you. It removes the hardware and automatically adds donations to your Salesforce Contacts because you enter the credit card info directly into Salesforce. Come check out the demo. Make them hard questions!

What is IATS?

A credit card processing company that specialized in serving nonprofits. They have a website.

What is Brickwork?

Check it out on the Salesforce App Exchange.

Here’s what IATS says:

Process both one-time and recurring credit card or ACH transactions from within any Salesforce CRM edition. All credit card types are accepted for both US and Canadian transactions. Let BRICKWORK by IATS Payments help your organization today!

Integrates seamlessly into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM Editions.

Give your donors the choice of making single or recurring gift donations with their Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards in US or Canadian dollars.

Create seamless, online donation pages with the integrated IATS product, AURA.

BRICKWORK is a FREE native Salesforce Application that brings the power of IATS Payments processing directly to your Salesforce environment. Whether donations come over the phone or through your website, BRICKWORK enables your organization to process credit card payments and maximize revenue.

Integrated into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM editions, BRICKWORK eliminates the hassle of manual data entry by automating the payment information and record creation. Real-time processing allows for greater workload efficiency and instantaneous results. With the ability to create donation pages directly from the AURA custom tab, taking your fundraising efforts online has never been easier.

As a Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified company, IATS ensures all transactions are handled with absolute security and confidentiality.

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P.S. We’ll supply snacks!

New Meetup: Vancouver Salesforce nonprofit user group — September 19, 2011

New Meetup: Vancouver Salesforce nonprofit user group

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Please join me at the first gathering of the Vancouver Nonprofit Salesforce User Group.

RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com

This group is for anyone at any level using Salesforce in the nonprofit, education or social entrepreneur sectors.
Or even for those are aren’t using it yet, but are merely curious. We’ll be talking about CRM (customer relationship management) issues in general too.

This is your meetup, so the first meeting will be an informal discussion that will allow us to figure out the needs of the nonprofit community and determine what you want from a Salesforce meetup.

And while you’re waiting for the meetup to start why not apply for the Salesforce Foundation software grant?

We encourage neophytes to seasoned developers to share information with the larger community.
What’s working for you? What’s a struggle? What would you want to get out of a Salesforce meetup?

P.S. We’ll supply snacks courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation. (yay!)

RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com/

DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

LOCATION:
The HiVE
210 – 128 W Hastings St

 

Net Tuesday November notes – online video for nonprofits — November 13, 2010

Net Tuesday November notes – online video for nonprofits

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W2 Community Media ArtsThanks to everyone for coming out and making the panel work (all those hard questions!) A special shout-out goes to W2 Community Media Arts Society, who provided the venue.

Special thanks to panelists:

There’s been an interesting discussion on Pull Focus’ Meatless Mondays video on the Meetup.com page. And you can watch the original “Meathead” video on Youtube.

Resources and presentation slides:

Subtitling:

Videos examples from event:

Free audio resources:

Other cool resources:

Links via Miraj Khaled

Other than youtube grants, projects with feature length video ideas may benefit from the examples &
grant/awards at the Skoll foundation & Participant Media

A youtube success story: one-man’s video journey to change the world

New ways to learn & collaborate:

The Slides:

Proposed Net Tuesday – Nonprofits and video — September 19, 2010

Proposed Net Tuesday – Nonprofits and video

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I’m plotting a topic for the Net Tuesday November meetup, and Ben Johnson suggested “video.”

What do you think? Are you interested in this topic? And do you know of any Vancouver nonprofits who are going interesting work with video? Please let me know in the comments or by emailing eli@vandergiessen.ca

Potential items to be presented and discussed:

  1. Youtube grants for nonprofits
  2. Youtube captioning and translation
  3. How to convert to actions using your videos (annotations, call-to-action overlays, sign-up forms)
  4. How to recruit video production assistance (volunteers, interns, etc)
  5. How can video help advance the mission, and is it worth the time? Examples from fundraising, advocacy, education.
NetSquared Camp organizers meeting 2 — July 5, 2010
NetSquared Camp Vancouver — July 4, 2010

NetSquared Camp Vancouver

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Register for NetSquared Camp Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia on EventbriteDate: Saturday, August 14
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street
Cost: By donation!

Attention Social Change geeks! You are invited to join us at Vancouver’s first NetSquared Camp.

What’s that? It’s an unconference bringing together nonprofits, activists and social entrepreneurs with their friends and allies in the world of technology and communications (social media folk, developers, designers, writers, marketers….)

NetSquared Camp Vancouver will focus on practical skill development and peer learning, so come with your questions and experiences.

Example topics:

  • how do I grow and manage my email list?
  • What fundraising strategies work best online?
  • Facebook Groups vs. Pages – which is right for me?
  • What’s CRM and why should I care?
  • How do I make a blog work for my organization?
  • How do I create a social media strategy?
  • What are best practices for Google Adwords?
  • How do I make an awesome Youtube video that converts to web traffic?
  • What’s the point of your website?
  • What is Drupal and why should you care?

Got a great topic you’d love to share? Add it to our wiki.

Internet Help Desk:

Are you new to this newfangled internet stuff? Why not join us at the Internet Help Desk?

Get one-on-one help from local experts who can answer your questions about such topics as:

  • How to create an email campaign
  • How to use Google Analytics
  • How to setup  Google Adwords
  • How to create a free site using WordPress.com

It’ll be awesome fun. See you there! RSVP now.

Vancouver ChangeCamp: how can government become more open and responsive? — May 23, 2010

Vancouver ChangeCamp: how can government become more open and responsive?

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Coat of arms of City of Vancouver
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Nonprofits have a strained relationship with government. It seems like we’re always yelling at them to open up their data. “Release the fisheries report!” “Publish the grizzly mortality counts!”

Wouldn’t it be great if nonprofits, community activists, policy wonks and government all got into a room and discussed our differences? What if government data defaulted to open, rather than closed?

Sounds kumbayah? Well, it isn’t. In fact, it happened last year. Community activists and nonprofits sat down with representatives from the provincial and municipal government (including Vancouver’s Mayor and BC’s Director of Citizen Engagement). And amazing things came from it, like:

Join me for Vancouver ChangeCamp 2010
When: Saturday, June 12. 8:30 – 5:00pm.
Where: W2 Storyeum, 151 Cordova W., Vancouver BC

Ticket are $20. RSVP at http://vanchangecamp.eventbrite.com/

What is Vancouver ChangeCamp?
Vancouver ChangeCamp is a participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, social entrepreneurs, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer these questions:

  • How can we help government become more open and responsive?
  • How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves?

ChangeCamp addresses the demand for a renewed relationship among citizens and government. We seek to create connections, knowledge, tools and policies that drive transparency, civic engagement and democratic empowerment.

The conference will be participant-driven, with the agenda created collaboratively at the start of the event, allowing participants to share their experiences and expertise.

When: Saturday, June 12. 8:30 – 5:00pm.
Where: W2 Storyeum, 151 Cordova W., Vancouver BC

Ticket are $20. RSVP at http://vanchangecamp.eventbrite.com/