Social Media, yMedia and Your Organisation - Auckland

On Thursday we ran our last workshop for 2008, tear. The community group focussed workshop was run at Microsoft on Viaduct Harbour in Auckland.

Belinda Gorman, Community Affairs Manager at Microsoft NZ, spoke about her experiences in the NGO sector before starting at Microsoft. She spoke about Microsoft's partnership with Techsoup which donates software and hardware to community groups.

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.

Jeanie Richards from YouthLaw talked about her experiences in the 2007 yMedia Challenge. Last year, tertiary students worked with YouthLaw to develop an online presence on Bebo for them. Jeanie explained that because the legal information they were trying to disseminate to children and young people needed to be entirely accurate, it was a challenge condensing that information into small bite-sized chunks for the YouthLaw Bebo site. However, the site has been a success including fun quizzes about the law and videos from the YouthLaw stand at the Polyfest. Check out Jeanie's presentation below!

YouthLaw presentation at yMedia workshop

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Thanks to everyone who made the workshop possible and thanks to the people from the following organisations for attending:

• Volunteering Auckland
• Preventing Violence in the Home
• Tamaki Pathways Trust
• YouthWorX
• Auckland Women's Centre
• Discovery Foundation
• Raeburn House
• North Shore Community and Social Services
• Auckland City Council
• Takapuna Community Facilities Trust

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!

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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.

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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

Technology and Social Change - Wellington Student Workshop

Last night yMedia ran our first workshop for 2008!

18 students from Victoria University, Natcoll Design Technology and Massey University came to the meeting room at the Xero Wellington office on Customhouse Quay.


We started the night off with some pizza and Epic Beer. We also had some veges with Lisa's hummus (unfortunately no, we're not getting any sponsorship from her).

Pamela Minett and Adele Barlow introduced the students and speakers.



Tim Norton presented first with a compelling presentation about the power of "purpose", with the message that you can do what you love to do and "make it your day job". Check his blog at http://www.makeithappenhq.com/


Sigurd Magnusson (Siggy) followed with a demonstation of SilverStripe and of course the funny YouTube video.



Nathan Champion finished with a student preso on Managing a Project. Check his Saatchi & Saatchi Internship blog and YouthLaw digital media blog.


Thanks to everyone who made it possible and thanks to everyone who came!