July 9, 2008

Social Media, yMedia and Your Organisation - Wellington

We ran our first workshop for community groups at Natcoll in Wellington on Monday.

Pamela Minett from yMedia spoke about changing technology and how to successfully involve tertiary students into community groups (NPOs, NGOs, charitable trusts). She introduced web 2.0 and discussed exciting web 2.0 tools that are potentially valuable to community groups in New Zealand. See her presentation below!



Anthea Whittle, Project Manager at Terabyte, talked about her experiences in last year's yMedia Challenge. She introduced and explained web concepts such as blogs and RSS. See her presentation below!


Sigurd Magnusson (Siggy) from SilverStripe demonstrated how SilverStripe's open source CMS can be used to design websites.

After a short break, we went "hands on" and everyone signed up for Gmail and explored Google Reader, iGoogle and Google Docs.


Thanks to Natcoll for the venue and thanks to the people who attended from the following organisations:
  • NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations
  • Council of Trade Unions' Learning Reps Programme
  • Whitireia Community Law
  • Arthritis NZ
  • Alzheimers NZ
  • Diabetes NZ
  • Churches Education Commission
  • SCOPE
  • Downtown Community Ministry
  • Kapiti Women's Centre
  • Pablos Art Studio
  • Helping you help animals trust
  • Save the Children New Zealand