Net Tuesday Vancouver is excited to announce NetSquared Camp 2012, an intimate gathering of Vancouver’s online campaigners. This unconference will be a chance for our community to gather and share our hard-won best practices, war stories, and victories!

The event will be held at The Hive on Saturday, April 28 and admission is $20.

Volunteers are awesome. So the July 5 Net Tuesday is gonna focus on volunteer coordination.

Volunteers are awesome, but the relationship between a nonprofit and a volunteer can be tricky.

VOLUNTEERS: Maybe the nonprofit never got back to you? Maybe the job they offered kinda sucked?

VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS: Are your volunteers creating a ridiculous pile of administrative paperwork and overhead? Can you find volunteers with the right skills? Why is this so hard?

Net Tuesday can't solve all your volunteer-related challenges. We aren't MAGIC. But we've got a few tricks up our sleeves that might help. Check this out:

RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com

Have you recently “checked-in” or fought for “mayorship” at your favourite restaurant or retail location? With Facebook recently launching its Facebook Places and Foursquare partnering with (RED), location-based services are definitely one of the trending topics in social media right now.

The topic for March is location-based services and how organizations can leverage the technology for social-change. We’re still in the process of curating speakers, so if you know anyone who is knowledgeable about these topics, please let us know at melody.yy.ma@gmail.com

Full details at NetTuesday.ca

Did your favourite nonprofit group send you an email over the winter holidays inviting you to buy a calendar, a t-shirt, or some other form of merchandise?

Hey Net Tuesday Vancouver,

I’m thrilled to announce that the December Net Tuesday will feature a panel on group buying sites (like Groupon) and a case study demonstrating the use of conversion tracking in Google Analytics. It’s gonna be awesome, so please RSVP.

Date: Tuesday, December 7
Doors: 5:30pm
Duration: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Venue:  W2 Storyeum, 151 W Cordova

RSVP on Facebook or Meetup

More information at http://www.NetTuesday.ca

 TOPIC: Email communications – still alive and kicking

It’s easy to get distracted by that new-fangled social media stuff (so shiny!), but the folks on the ground in non-profits know that the real action’s in email. That’s where you raise the funds to advance your mission. That’s how you get people to show up to events. That’s how you get petitions signed.

There’s plenty of life left in email communications, and learning how to test, optimize, and integrate email campaigns is (I reckon) the best investment you can make in the online space.

Held August 14, the NetSquared Camp in Vancouver brought together nonprofits, activists and social entrepreneurs with their friends and allies in the world of technology and communications in an offline event dedicated to learning and sharing. The Camp, one in a series of Camps Pilot events, aimed to provide an environment for learning, networking, and collaboration -- and it was a huge success! Learn more about the event including resources, stories, and media from the day:

Tap the wisdom of Vancouver’s experts in nonprofit technology and marketing at NetSquared Camp Vancouver on August 14, 2010.

NetSquared volunteer consultants will be staffing a desk and are available to answer any question in their field. Don’t miss the opportunity to pick their brains for free.

Internet Help Desk Consultants:

Location: SFU Harbour Centre Atrium

Time: 10:00 am – noon:

• Ben Johnson, Union Gospel Mission:  Visualizing data
• Jenny Silver, David Suzuki Foundation –  Customizing Facebook
• Kate Trgovac, LintBucket Media – Optimizing social media profiles

Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Hello everybody! ) 

I am a REAL living, breathing and successful outcome of the 3rd phase of the Fearless City Mobile Project!

I am a young, minority, marginalized woman from this area who has learned to use mobile cellphones to successfully change my life and help empower the lives of others in my area. 

I live and work in what's known as the Poorest Postal Code of Canada. Please read the following wikipedia on my neighborhood....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside

In a very brief summary:

Two of the 21 Net Tuesdays are meeting this week on Tuesday, August 26:

Net Tuesday Vancouver, BC
Topic: How Drupal Can Help You Save the World!

Net Tuesday Portland, OR
Topic: An Analysis of Online Messaging, Fundraising and Advocacy Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations