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Podcasts: We will be podcasting all of the keynote presentations after the conference – but there will be some that will be available the following day. You can find them all in iTunes -- or on our blog at http://www.connectingup.org/blog.

Finding the right internet domain name is more important than you think - if you want to be found. Find out:

• What makes a good domain name
• How to register a domain name
• How to identify the most effective name to represent your organisation.

Presenter:

Darrell Burkey is the founder and President of Computing Assistance Support & Education Inc
(CASE), a non-profit organisation providing ICT support to community development organisations. Darrell has been involved with the community sector in the ACT since 1992. He holds degrees in Professional Photography and Information Technology (software). Darrell was an IT trainer for the University of Canberra and is currently a Unix Systems Administrator at the Australian National University where he received the Vice-Chancellor's Staff Award for Community Involvement. Darrell has contributed to research on issues relating to the equitable access to technology in Australia and is a member of the Systems Administrators Guild of Australia.

Miromaa is a program developed to assist Aboriginal language work – easy to use, user friendly database. The program helps user to gather, organize, analyse and produce outcomes for language work. The presentation will provide information about how the program has achieved success and supported other organisations around Australia with Aboriginal language work.

Presenter:

Daryn McKenny is an Aboriginal man from Newcastle, Awabakal country, with descendancy to the Gamillaray and Wiradjuri Nations, Daryn is also General Manager of Arwarbukarl Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre.  He has developed innovative ways of making technology friendly for Aboriginal people to maintain their language through the use of the program, Miromaa.  His organization also held the first ever National Indigenous Language & ICT Forum in 2007.

This session is the inaugural meeting of Net2Tuesday in Australia. The idea behind Net2Tuesday is to increase adoption of Web2.0 services by nonprofit organisations and others interested in creating a social benefit. The goal is to create an ongoing peer-driven community event for the development of social software and real world appplications in Australia.

The session will focus on talking to each other about how we can sustain these events and what we would like to get out of them. So if you have:

• a passion for discussing and facilitating the use of the social web for social change
• have a computer, Internet access and computer skills
• like people

....then you should come and find out more.

Presenter:

Simon Gee is the Manager ICT and DonorTec at Connecting Up Australia (CUA). Simon has been with CUA since the beginning of 2006. Simon manages the DonorTec program (www.donortec.com.au), a program that links nonprofit and community organisations with key technology partners such as Microsoft and Cisco. Simon brings a broad range of knowledge of ICT, having worked at such companies as EDS and Capgemini and with various Government agencies.

This workshop will cover:

• What others do
• Knowledge vs networks
• Finding time for you own professional development plan
• Tools and strategies.

Presenter:

Marlene Manto, Innovations Coordinator in South Australia, for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Marlene has been involved in Flexible Learning and e-learning for more than 15 years.  In her role, she works with project teams who are trying to embed e-learning and also manages and facilitates professional development programs and workshops on many subjects related to e-learning, across the state.  She studied for a degree in Vocational Education and a Post Graduate Certificate in Flexible Learning while bringing up 4 children and trying to keep a level of order in a very busy home environment.

Using stories to envisage the Community Central website – the before, middle and after of the story.

Presenter:

Stephen Blyth helps tangata whenua, community and voluntary groups how to get the most out of the Internet. Since becoming self-employed in 2007 he's run training sessions, helped to select website designers, advised on participation processes, managed websites, set up a new IT support service from scratch and written content for the web. Clients have included both government agencies and NGOs. Currently he's the project manager for CommunityCentral, a new website providing tools to help community groups work together. When not online, you might catch Stephen cycling around Wellington, spending time with family and friends, or tilling the soil.

A presentation that looks at using web based tools to manage a dispersed board and management team.

Presenter:

Colin Kemp, Executive Officer, Community Technology Centres Association. Colin is responsible for the delivery and reporting on all projects that the association receives funding for. He also provides support to members in the way of advice, assistance in project delivery and operation of the centres.

He brings many years experience in project management experience in Government and IT consulting to the association at a day to day level.  In his spare time he also co-manages the Bowraville Technology Centre, a CTC and an RTC and runs a 3,500 tree macadamia farm near Bowraville.

Connecting Up IT? Of course you are! This the era of social networking, online donations, remote working, web conferencing and network openness. Sadly, however, today’s networks are often so open that cybercriminals are having a ball out there.
Come to this presentation and find out, through a live demo--- safely done, but using real malware --- how a modern cybercriminal attack works, and how even well-informed users can be tricked. At the same time, learn what you can do to protect your own users, PCs, servers and networks.

Presenter:

Paul Ducklin is Head of Technology, Asia Pacific at Sophos in Sydney. He has been part of the anti-malware research scene for almost 20 years. He joined Sophos in 1995 from the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

Paul is an experienced and entertaining presenter, regularly giving talks at events world-wide. He loves his subject, enjoys sharing his knowledge -- he was singled out by one IT journalist as "the most passionate security presenter" at RSA2008 in San Francisco -- and doesn't believe in PowerPoint.

Making Cents is a highly successful program offering resources online for teachers and parents to help Australians understand and manage their money. The presentation will highlight the successes and challenges of this project including:

• Success of uptake and use of the resources
• Reaching isolated areas
• Ease of access to resources
• Working with partners.

Presenter:

Sandra Ross, Director, Community Services and Programs, Regional YWCA NSW. Sandra began her career as a teacher, then consultant with the Department of Education and Training in the Computer Education Unit. She moved into the corporate world as Education Marketing Manager for an international computing company eventually setting up her own consultancy Chalk & Chips: computer education solutions. Since then she has remained in the not for profit sector. YWCA NSW supports vulnerable people at those critical transition periods in life when they are more prone to fall through the gaps. Recognising that most young Australians have not been exposed to financial education, the YWCA NSW and Citi Australia joined forces in 2003 with the NSW Department of Education and Training to develop MakingCents- a curriculum based financial education program. This is the program she will feature in her presentation today.

Jody will outline the work of the Anita Borg Foundation and their efforts to expand the career prospects of women with an interest in technology and to expand their networks.

Presenter:

Jody Mahoney is Vice President, Business Development at Anita Borg Institute (ABI), making her responsible for developing current and new Institute sponsors and partners willing to grow with ABI as their programs expand in support of their mission. Prior to joining the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Jody was senior director international development with TechSoup Global, a social enterprise based in San Francisco where she was instrumental in developing the corporate and nonprofit partnerships needed for international expansion, including Connecting Up Australia’s Donortec program. Prior to TechSoup Global, Jody held many and varied business development, partnership recruitment and technology sales positions. She holds a BFA from Antioch College and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Jody’s passions include international development, tackling disadvantage, the access of women to technology, equity and microfinance, writing, travel, gardens, advocating on behalf of breast cancer research, teenagers of all shapes and sizes, her family and friends, her Welsh Cardigan Corgi, and lots of laughing.

From identifying organisational aims and outcomes, through to managing risk this presentation will illustrate how you can use social media to educate and engage young people to promote positive mental health and early help seeking behavior.
Headspace recognises the need for moving beyond ‘information transfer’ as one of the most significant factors in the development of effective mental health promotion and disorder prevention interventions.

Presenters:

Sarah Shiell is the Youth Participation and Website Coordinator at headspace. With a Masters degree in Public Health and practical experience implementing consumer participation in services, Sarah has recognised the significant impact that Information Communication Technology can have on assisting to engaging individuals with organisations.

Karalee Evans MPRIA is the Acting Director of Communications at headspace. She has a strong background in marketing, public relations, media and social marketing across Government, business, health and community sectors, having worked in communications consulting, Government and most recently in-house. She brings an integrated approach to communications, social marketing and promotion and has established headspace’s successful social media strategy. She is currently studying a Masters in Communication.

Find out how Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau assessed its information and technology future. The presentation offers information from the perspective of a community organisation manager and university researcher.

Presenters:

Stefanie Kethers, Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University. Stefanie has contributed to numerous interdisciplinary projects focussing on her main research interest, supporting human cooperation, at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and at CSIRO and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Stefanie is currently part of the "Doing IT Better" project team. “Doing IT Better” is a three-year project to build information and communications technology (ICT) capacity in the Victorian community services sector.

Stefanie received her doctorate degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 2000 with a thesis on modelling and analysing cooperative processes. She also holds degrees in Computer Science, and in English Studies. Stefanie has published about 20 scientific papers and has reviewed papers for several international conferences and workshops.

Jinny McGrath, Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau

Katherine West Health Board has introduced two technological initiatives to support the delivery of health services. This story will provide an overview of the initiatives and the impact it is having on the delivery of services and support for staff.

Presenters:

Reece O'Brien, Information and Communications Officer, Katherine West Health Board.
After graduating from Latrobe University with a Bachelor of Journalism Reece went straight into Information Management and Copywriting for a website company in Melbourne, learning about how the different staff members of that company use information in their day to day work patterns. His worked allowed him to gain experience working with Content Management Systems, creating functional web pages that adhered to written and graphic design conventions and author content to both educate and satisfy internal staff and external client requirements..

At Katherine West Health Board, Reece was placed in charge of assessing the needs, workshopping and then creating an Intranet system for both town (Katherine) and remote staff. To date the Intranet has been a huge success, with positive feedback on its benefits from town and bush staff.

David Murtagh, Project Manager of AMSnet (Aboriginal Medical Services Association of NT)

This presentation provides an insight into how an organisation has:

• Engaged and empowered volunteers
• Built social networks of donors and advocates

Presenter:
Bill Petch, Barnardos.

The workshop provides an insight into how a program used wikis to engage young people who had become disengaged with school. It includes the good, the bad and the fantastic of:

• Engaging stakeholders
• Designing the brief
• Building the wiki.

Presenters: