Web 2.0 and Your Organization

This event is sold out – please email web2andyou@gmail.com to be placed on a waiting list! 

Are you interested in how online communities like Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube can empower your members and customers to carry your message out into the world?

Could your organization benefit from deeper collaboration among your team members, clients, partners or the public?

Could better knowledge-sharing, stronger relationships and closer communications inside your organization and with your core supporters foster more efficiency, insight and effectiveness?

The latest generation of Web 2.0 (or "social web") strategies and tools offer powerful opportunities for organizations to improve the way they work, communicate their messages, empower others, and serve the public. In this workshop you will learn how the latest tools for online collaboration and community building can make your organization smarter and more effective.

Who Should Attend?

• communications strategists
• marketing managers
• webmasters
  
• anyone who is interested in how this evolution of the web can help evolve your organization's online strategy

What Will You Learn? 

• We will give you the tools, knowledge, and most crucially, the vision for how your organization can use the web as an agent of change.
  
• We’ll also cover the nuts-and-bolts, introducing the latest tools so that you know which options are most promising for your needs.

This workshop will take place from 6pm to 9pm on July 24th, and from 9am to 5pm (with lunch provided) on July 25th.

Please note that this is a fast-paced, hands-on workshop –70% about HOW, and 30% about WHY. You will need a wifi-enabled laptop to bring to the workshop.

For more information, please contact web2andyou@gmail.com.

There are a limited number of tuition discounts available to non-profit organizations with an operating budget of less than $500K a year. Please contact web2andyou@gmail.com if you would like to apply for the discounted rate of $150.   

This event has been generously sponsored by the Centre for Social Innovation, the Sustainability Network, and Creative Trust.

Jason Mogus is the CEO of Communicopia, a 14-year-old, Webby Award winning firm that helps organizations working for sustainability and social change build meaningful relationships with supporters through the web. Jason is also the founder of the Web of Change Conference.

Alexandra Samuel, PhD (Harvard), is CEO of Social Signal, a Vancouver-based web company a company that builds online communities like ChangeEverything.ca and NetSquared.org for non-profit organizations and sustainable businesses.