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If you fail to plan…

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Archana Sridhar reminded her audience that loss of control can be a plus for your organization online, because as you open up more to your users, they can tell you more about your organization and more about the different needs they have;

Is technology a source of creativity or frustration?

Monday, June 14th, 2010

This presentation was terrific because I learned more about using social media tools to increase my capacity to network, collaborate, manage, monitor, build and sustain my business.

How is that we have all this power and we don’t own it?

Monday, June 14th, 2010

My charity rocks, it’s a rooting tooting, awesome, knock em dead, rock and roll, sweet baby James of a charity. Maybe not his exact words, but Robert’s genuine passion, sincerity, pride, anger and commitment flowed through every word he uttered in his keynote.

Philanthropy requires honesty and a sense of humour

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

In her recently released book, Disrupting Philanthropy – co-authored with Edward Skloot and Barry Varela, Dr. Lucy Bernholz explores the immediate and longer-term implications of networked digital technologies for philanthropy.

Top 10 reasons why my organization should care about Mobile

Monday, May 31st, 2010

At the end of December 2009, Canadian wireless phone subscribers numbered 22.8 million. It’s time for your organization to learn how to make mobile technology part of your communications strategy.

What! Me worry?

Friday, May 28th, 2010

The average Internet user is largely oblivious to a much larger problem than Facebook – the increasingly intense geopolitical competition hidden within the subterranean layers of cyberspace.

Technology leading to economic and democratic progress

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

When it comes to social and mobile technology, the question is no longer whether or not we should be using it, but rather, how can we adopt it in a strategic way? And how can social innovators use it to create greater impact?

Net Change immersion

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Ed Keeble, our Creative Director has some ambitious plans to transform the MaRS concourse area into a Net Change world, hiding away the Tim Horton’s and dry cleaner and immersing all participants in images that remind us how social movements can be fuelled online and offline with the wizardry of technology. Here’s a short video [...]

Social Tech for Change: A round up of good stories

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

The web’s capacity to be instantaneous, replicable and viral is offering up unparalleled results. In fact, never before has offline mobilization happened more quickly or in a robust manner than yielded by web-enabled, people-powered or co-created mediums.

How to be an effective communicator in the 21st Century

Monday, March 29th, 2010

When it comes to new media, it’s important to get beyond the buzz. The World Wide Web has brought upon us a new communications paradigm for the 21st Century. To early adopters, the domain of “www” is a cinch, to others; it can be decidedly perplexing.