Archive for the ‘Hui, conferences’ Category

Privacy concerns raised at Connecting Up 09 conference

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 salesman he blithely asked if I’d like the receipt emailed to my [...]

The first thing to go…..

The first thing to go when our son was born in December was not sleep,  but writing posts for this blog. No matter how much I’ve willed myself to jump online and blog, the ink has’t flowed. Today, the hiatus is officially over. For good reason – I’m at the webstock 09 conference at Wellington [...]

Conference watch – heavy duty stuff

To learn all you want to know about Drupal, and probably more, head along to DrupalSouth. The two day event is aimed mainly at developers but there’ll be lots to learn for anyone using the open source content management platform. I’m wondering if it might be too technical for me, but as I’m currently working [...]

“Spreading the word” now on Slideshare

I’m glad I wasn’t running a session on Slideshare at the Engage Your Community conference. When I went to upload the presentation I made at the conference it didn’t load first time. I tried an hour later, then the next and a day later. There was no explanation from the folk at Slideshare about any [...]

Less than a week to go….

Next Thursday at least 125 people will be gathering to learn and talk about using the web for their not for profit organisation. The Engage Your Community conference is being held at Massey University in Wellington on 4 September. The organising team (pictured above) met on Thursday for a final wrap up. Despite the last [...]

Engage your community conference, the sequel

The Engage your community mini-conference in Hamilton earlier in the year was a great day. About 140 people showed up to learn about and discuss how blogs, social media and other online tools can help community groups. Read my post about the presentation I made at the conference, “Wikispaces workshop notes”). Based on the success [...]

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