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.

A presentation which will cover how these very important elements of openness are important to ensuring access to opportunities and sustainability for non-profits and their clients.

Presenter:

Pia Waugh is a consultant at Waugh Partners in Sydney, Australia. She had worked as a Research Coordinator for the Australian Service for Knowledge on Open Source Software (ASK-OSS), the Open Source strategist for a large systems integrator and still works to develop the Australian FOSS industry and improve Government policies towards FOSS. She has been working with Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) such as Linux for about 8 years. She has seen FOSS deliver not only economic benefits to countries and business all around the world, but significant social and environmental benefits to communities everywhere.

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.

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.

Losing corporate knowledge when staff leaves and finding a way to capture and disseminate knowledge to new staff is something every organisation struggles with. This presentation provides an insight into how one organisation used a wiki to collect and manage the accumulated years of knowledge.

Presenters:

Susan Devine, Manager of the Inner West Business Enterprise Centre in SA and manager of the Business Helpline
Gail Tuft

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)

Presentation in 2 parts

Part 1: Overview of Engineers without Borders (EWB) – what they do.
Part 2: Brief tour of the major tool they use – its features and how it improves team effort.

Presenter:

Patrick Kelso, Director of Communications and Promotions for Engineers Without Borders NSW. Patrick has held that role since June 2008 and performs it concurrently with his day job working for EMC², the world's largest information lifecycle company. With over 10 years experience in information technology & communications, including several years experience in online communications & web 2.0 technologies Patrick has a wealth of knowledge in empowering communication and collaboration for little or no expense. In 2008 Patrick was elected to Ashfield Council and has used his position to encourage the entire Council organisation to adopt electronic papers and communications as the standard to reduce paper usage and looks forward to productivity increases as a result.

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:

A solution architect with a passion for communication provides a perspective on supporter relations and fundraising and technology solutions.

Presenter:

Jay McCormack, Solution Architect, Advanced Solutions International (Asia-Pacific). Jay assists non-profit organisations match technology to their needs so that they can run more efficiently, communicate to their members more effectively, raise more funds and do more good for the community.

Jay has worked for I.T. consulting organisations as a manager, consultant trainer and project manager throughout Australia during which time he has gained extensive experience in the fields of web, communications, software development, business intelligence and marketing analysis. 

He is able to talk about complex issues in simple language whether he’s communicating to a CEO or the CEO’s resident I.T. guru. He ensures clients meet business objectives and define solutions. Those clients include: CPA Australia, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australian Medical Association, Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners – National Office.