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Connecting Up 09 is over but the discussion continues…….

The keynote presentations for both Day One and Day Two at the Connecting Up 09 conference are available online now for you to access and share.
Connecting Up 09 Day One 
Connecting Up 09 Day Two

The presentations include keynotes from:

  • Cheryl Kernot, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Social Impact, University of NSW
  • Mark Pesce, Inventor, writer, educator and futurist
  • Tracey Fellows, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia
  • Peter Deitz, the founder and Executive Director of Social Actions
  • Allen (Gunner) Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration
  • Alan Noble, Engineering Director, Google Australia and New Zealand
  • Monique Potts, Digital Media Project Manager and Producer at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
  • Jody Mahoney, Vice President, Business Development, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

You can also follow the ongoing conversations and sharing of information from the conference at friendfeed. Go to http://friendfeed.com/ and enter a search for #cua09 and follow all the latest including the preparation for the first NSW net2tuesday in Sydney on Tuesday 7 July.

There are also a range of conversations you can follow, which have started in response to Mark Pesce’s presentation at the conference see:

  • Beth Kanter’s blog entry
18 May - http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/05/does-your-nonprofit-organization-work-like-a-cloud.html
And the related comments and conversation
12May - http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/05/mark-pesce-at-cua09-think-like-a-cloud-make-a-storm-kill-the-tower.html

The power of videoblogging

If you missed the Power of Videoblogging workshop with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson on 13 May don’t worry they have provided links to tutorials for you to get started creating your own videoblog.

At Freevlog http://freevlog.org/learn you can access a range of short videos to help you start to create your own videoblog. The materials are broken up into three sections:
  • Telling stories
  • Making Videos
  • Publishing videos

Big tip for everyone who attended – Jay and Ryanne have added three more videos to their tutorial site since the workshop.

You can also access the slide show from their presentation at the conference workshop at slideshare. We will also be editing and adding the video from the workshop to the Connecting Up website soon.

For those of you who have already created your first film/video you might be interested in entering into Lights. Camera. Help - A nonprofit film festival, inviting organisations to tell their stories through films and videos. The film festival is dedicated to nonprofit and grassroots organizations. Proceeds from the festival are donated to the organisation that is the subject of the winning film. http://www.lightscamerahelp.com/  - great idea.

A Big thank you to Jay and Ryanne for this wonderful work and sharing of resources.

Australian Community ICT Awards Winners 2009
  • Mission Australia's workflow management system, which frees up social workers to spend more time helping people
  • Vodafone Australia Foundation's mobile phone system, which helps save young people's lives
  • Status Works' website, which better connects employers and job-seekers
    RSPCA (ACT)'s online pet adoption system, which saves the lives of moggies and mutts
  • FlowConnect's grants management system, which streamlines applications for government funding for children with special needs
  • The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Austlang website, which re-connects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to their Indigenous languages

Find out more here:

CUA09 Blogs, tweets and more

Patrick's Musings | Connecting Up 09 Aftermath
By Patrick Kelso at Patrick’s blog Patrick’s Musings
Connecting Up 09 Aftermath. What a fantastic 2 days. I didn't want the conference to end. A huge thanks to Donortec & Connecting Up for organising such a great event. I've already implemented one thing and jumped up to start a ...

Privacy concerns raised at Connecting Up 09 conference
By Stephen Blyth at Stephen’s blog Common Knowledge
After a heated discussion about privacy at the Connecting Up conference, I headed off to the Apple Store to get a replacement power adapter. I'd left my one behind on the kitchen bench. When I handed over my credit card to the young

Here is a link to Jody Mahoney’s keynote address on the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is dedicated to increasing the impact of women on all aspects of technology and the positive impact of technology on women worldwide.
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

You can also go to Jody Mahoney’s blog to read her entry about someone special she met at the conference that Jody has written about - http://jodymahoney.typepad.com/11513_galt_avenue/2009/05/a-lovely-little-ngodads-australia-inc.html  

You can read a summary of Connecting Up 09  Conference at Lisa Harvey’s blog at energetica at #cua09 A summary

At the Computing Assistance Support and Education (CASE) blog you can access their 3 part report of the presentations they attended at the conference:

Part one, Part two and Part three

Tag Connecting Up 09

CUA09 is the tag we are asking people who were at the conference to use.  This tag will help to capture some of  the experience for those who were not at the conference. This will include:

  • Images on flickr

  • Presentations uploaded to slideshare

  • Del.ico.us bookmarks

  • Blog posts.

So who’s behind all this?

Connecting Up 09 is brought to you by Connecting Up Australia. We are an Australian community nonprofit organisation with a 28 year history in community information and nonprofit capacity development. There have been 6 conferences in the Connecting Up series. We also operate a number of other projects and services to support capacity building of the nonprofit sector including the Australian DonorTec technology donation program www.donortec.com.au , in partnership with TechSoup Global. 

Connecting Up Australia is the nonprofit link to ICT Resources. Go to www.connectingup.org

Survey Competition

We would like your feedback to help us plan Connecting Up 10 – where, what, who, how etc?

All survey respondents are entered in to a draw for 2 4GB iPod Shuffles

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