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Connecting Up 09 - DAY ONE
Access the mp3 files for each of the presentations from keynote speakers in the Endeavour Ballrroom at the Novotel Brighton Sydney.
Monday May 11
Welcome to the Land - Glen Timbrey
Opening of the Connecting Up 09 Conference - Bruce Linn, Chairperson of the Connecting Up Australia Board
Welcome from Connecting Up Australia - Doug Jacquier, CEO Connecting Up Australia
Doug's presentation provides:
- Background information about Connecting Up Australia
- Vision for the conference
- Now and for the future for the nonprofit sector
- Tips and hints from recent meetings with nonprofit organisations in the United States
- What Connecting Up Australia offers - growing for the future.
Access the transcript of Doug Jacquier's presentation as a PDF document
Keynote presentation - Cheryl Kernot, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Social Impact, University of NSW
Cheryl Kernot's presentation provides a snapshot of the ever changing world including:
- new sectoral relationships
- new organisational forms
- new forms of finance
- new measurement tools to translate social value.
Keynote presentation - Mark Pesce, Inventor, writer, educator and futurist.
Mark Pesce's presentation provides a theoretical approach to how all of the transformations in media and social media are affecting how we are working as organisations.
Questions and Answer time with Cheryl Kernot and Mark Pesce.
Response to Questions One - Question to Cheryl Kernot - What are the opportunities for nonprofits to work collaboratively with the government.
Response to Question Two - Question to Mark Pesce - What is the correlation between interest and action using social action.
Response to Question Three - Question to Cheryl Kernot - What kind of social and or legal ramifications have there been in relation to consumers commenting publicly about medical problems and issues.
Response to Question Four - To either panellist - Are you predicting the demise of the large corporate not-for-profit.
Response to Question Five - To either panellist - Is there any local or international research for seeding clouds for social change.
Keynote presentation - Tracey Fellows, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia.
The transcript of Tracey's presentation is available for downloading as a PDF document.
In this presentation at the Connecting Up conference Tracey talks about:
- Technology as a tool for change
- The democratisation of technology
- Technology in Education
- What the future looks like
- Microsoft's principles of corporate citizenship
- Matching technology needs with skills.
Keynote presentation - Peter Deitz, the founder and Executive Director of Social Actions
Peter Deitz provides background information about Social Actions. His presentation then moves on to provide examples of how really breakthrough nonprofits are creating opporutnities to create actions in a short period of time.
Access the transcript of Peter's presentation at http://my.socialactions.com/profiles/blogs/time-and-social-action.
Question and Answer time with Peter Deitz
Response to Question One - Are there legal ramifications in regards to micro volunteering and police checks.
Response to Question Two - Have you seen any data around loyalty of people to particular fundraisers.
Overview of the Videoblogging workshop facilitated by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson on Wednesday 13 May
You can access the slides from the presentation at Slideshare
Jay and Ryanne are video activists who started out in television. Five years ago they started to work with nonprofits and activists to look at how the use of video/film, can be used to communicate stories for change. At their workshop they aim to share their knowledge and expertise about the power of video to show how easy it is to construct and publish your own video. Find out more about their work at ryanishungry.com
Keynote presentation - Allen (Gunner) Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration
The convening methodology that Gunner uses in his keynote can be found at the Aspiration wiki facilitation.aspirationtech.org. The wiki describes details, considerations, and logistics for organizing and facilitating “Aspiration Style” events. Aspiration run workshops worldwide.
Gunner posed two controversial questions to delegates at the conference and they were then asked to place themselves on a continuum in relation to these questions. The audio provides access to the conversations that took place in this process.
The two questions were:
- Nonprofits who fail to fully embrace social media like twitter, facebook etc will cease to be relevant
- Between sharing on social networks, data mining by corporations and governments - privacy is a thing of the past.
