While we likely didn’t solve all of the problems around Intellectual Property, perhaps you left the event thinking about issues you had not thought of before. If that is the case then I am over the moon. Digital Citizens (for me) is not about the panel, nor the group in reality. Instead it is about inclusive and informal knowledge sharing. If you indeed got a spark of knowledge from the event, it is now up to you to share it with others.

Finally, as I briefly mentioned last night, simply by making the choice to show up, you helped us raise $425 toward the Fred Hollows Foundation (www.hollows.org.au), which as they point out will be able to restore the sight of around 17ppl. Awesome effort! Perhaps those 17 people can then learn to torrent movies (but I might be asking a bit much….)?  (if you want to find out more about the effect of this donation go here http://www.hollows.org.au/Single_Donation/ )

Dear Digital Citizens,
Thank you very much for your generous gift to The Fred Hollows Foundation!
Your gift will help restore sight, dignity and independence to those living with avoidable blindness in developing countries around the world.
Millions of people go blind due to lack of access to simple treatment, and many more stay blind due to lack of access to relatively routine surgery.
Restoring sight brings about lasting change to those living with blindness – their lives will forever be changed because of your generosity.
Thank you again.

Brian Doolan
Chief Executive

By the way, are you following #digicitz on facebook yet? @Katrucia just uploaded pictures from last night and they are worth checking out.http://frid.co/attzSR

Many thanks for your involvement,

Fridley & the Digicitz Crew
@ecitizens
http://digital-citizens.org

Tonight is the ninth Digital Citizen’s event – Politics and Digital Activism in the Social Age – and I’ll once again be live blogging the event for posterity and for those who can’t make it. To receive an alert when the show starts all you have to do is enter your email below.

The event, moderated by one of Australia’s leading digital marketers and communicators Kate Carruthers, will be hosted at the Shelbourne Hotel in Sydney on 22nd March at 7pm.

The latest Digital Citizens event will include Labor Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Roads Penny Sharpe, John Bergin, Director of Digital News for Sky News, Steve Hopkins from Ai-Media and Thomas Tudehope, Director of Engagement and Strategy for SR7.

I’ll be pulling in tweets which use the #digicitz hashtag, or you can participate below. If you’re wanting to ask the Panel a question, just use the hashtag or drop your question in the comments section below during the show and I’ll try and pass on as many to the panel as I can.

So remember, use Twitter or the comment system built into CoverItLive to join in tonight and add your thoughts from wherever you happen to be!

I’ll leave you with that for now. See you on the night, either in person or online!

~Warlach

Tonight is the Digital Citizen’s Christmas party, and while we wont be having a panel I thought it might be a nice idea to still have a live blog, but with a twist: I’ll be setting up the computer at the event an encouraging everyone who comes along to post to the liveblog about 2010, their thoughts on 2011 or anything!

Think of it like a digital guest book blog hybrid thingy with Twitter comments from the the #digicitz hashtag and any comments made in the CoverItLive box below, pulled in too! Mad? Probably, but it’s Christmas.

So, come find me at the event if you want to participate, of just tweet using the hashtag and lets send 2010 out with a bang! See you tonight, either in person or online!

~Warlach

Tonight is the eighth Digital Citizen’s event – Pressing the go viral button: myths, memes, YouTube and the future of TVCs – and I’ll once again be live blogging the event for posterity and for those who can’t make it. To receive an alert when the show starts all you have to do is enter your email below.

I’ll be pulling in tweets which use the #digicitz hashtag, or you can participate below. If you’re wanting to ask the Panel a question, just use the hashtag or drop your question in the comments section below during the show and I’ll try and pass on as many to the panel as I can.

So remember, use Twitter or the comment system built into CoverItLive to join in tonight and add your thoughts from wherever you happen to be!

I’ll leave you with that for now. See you on the night, either in person or online!

~Warlach

Tonight is the seventh Digital Citizen’s event – So you think you’re a Social Media Expert? – and I’ll once again be live blogging the event for posterity and for those who can’t make it. To receive an alert when the show starts all you have to do is enter your email below.

I’ll be pulling in tweets which use the #digicitz hashtag, or you can participate below. If you’re wanting to ask the Panel a question, just use the #digicitz hashtag and we’ll try and pass on as many to the panel as we can.

Note, in the interest of full disclosure one of the speakers tonight, Katy Daniells, is my coworker and while I think she is grand will try my best to avoid any bias. I’ll leave you with that for now. See you tonight, either in person or online!

~Warlach

• This months charity partner Reachout
• A Customer Service Delivery Consultancy
• An IT & Networking Service Delivery Organisation

Perhaps you have an another pitch to add? Add your comment or DM Digital Citizens on Twitter

Looking forward to Katy, Paul and Mike distilling these challenges to provide some interesting, measurable and successful solutions on Tuesday night.

Have you got your tickets yet?

Last night the Daemon TWO crew attended the sixth Digital Citizens event and this time around we were talking “Startups, Small shops and bootstrappers: the real value in social media and digital PR for small business”

A new venue and a new format saw higher audience participation and more questions which worked really well (despite a few technical sound issues). The panel consisted of Jeremy Somers (@itsartdammit) designer and co-founder of We Are Handsome, Craig Macindoe (@chefmumu) head chef and owner of Mumu Grill, Annalisa Holmes (@transcribe) director of Transcribe and Lara Solomon (@LaRoo) creator of Mocks, and author of Brand New Day.

There were lots of good points made during the course of the evening, here are six tips taken from the panels discussions on using social for small business:

This post originally appeared on Daemon TWO’s blog. Read the rest of the post there.

Tomorrow is the sixth Digital Citizen’s event – Startups, small shops and bootstrappers: the real value in social media and digital PR for small business – and I’ll once again be live blogging the event for posterity and for those who can’t make it. I’m putting the code up early as you can sign up to receive an alert when the show starts. All you have to do is enter your email below.

I’ll be pulling in tweets which use the #digicitz hashtag, or you can participate below. If you’re wanting to ask the Panel a question, please use the #digicitz hashtag, and also chuck in a #question tag so we know it’s for the Panel.

I’ll leave you with that for now. See you on the night, either in person or online!

~Warlach

“Startups, small shops and bootstrappers: the real value in social media and digital PR for small business”

Next step is for us to find speakers. If you have anyone in mind who you have heard speak before, or perhaps has a really interesting story to tell, please let us know. We are especially keen to get speakers from outside of the normal pool, and perhaps a couple of people who have had bad experiences with social media and digital PR.