Onward Digital Soldiers

franksting — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:57:23 +0000

As we move forward we know that events is where we take our connection into real space.

So we remain ever so thankful to those who have participated in our events both on the floor, in the interwebz and behind the scenes. Especially our intrepid videoographer, photographer and livebloggers

The fourth #digicitz event is on next week. So it’s time to look back at our first three events and give thanks again to those panellists and MC’s who contributed.

Our MC’s

Bronwen Clune coralled a great Panel to talk about our Private Parts.

Damian Damjanovski who manfully guided the conversation around the ever intriguing subject of Measurement and Metrics last month and also contributed to Private Parts.

Alan Jones, currently training for the Oxfam Trailwalker, facilitated an excellent conversation on Social Media and Social Good.

Our Panellists

Adrian Dayton, a Social Media specialist lawyer was in town from the USA to give us some interesting insights with regards to your Privacy online from a Legal Perspective. Adrian was accompanied by Renai LeMay from technology publication Delimiter, who gave us a a journalistic view on Privacy in the Digital Space, and Sam North. Sam had a perspective quite distinct from the others due to his lengthy experience in both media and PR – but also as a Social Media holdout. Though we do believe he finally created a Twitter account immediately after the event.

David Hood fresh from battling Palm Oil for Greenpeace, Karalee Evans formerly of headspace and now at Amnesia, Mark Chenery from ActionAid and Nic McKay from the Human Race presented an intriguing night with Alan discussing Social Good.

Last time out Damian kept the questions real with answers coming from Mitch Malone, Community Manager at BuzzNumbers, Marie-Claire Jenkins, Senior Strategist at McCann Sydney and Andrew Hughes, Senior SEO and SMO Consultant for Reprise Media.

What’s Hot?

We’ve also had Kim McKay from Klick telling us all about what was hot in Social Media at SxSW and Gavin Heaton of Servant of Chaos fame discussing the Age of Conversation and why it is good to talk.

Next Up

Time to announce that Gavin Heaton will be back next week to MC a conversation dedicated to understanding how to make organisational and cultural change to embrace the social media revolution – even in the most uptight workplace!

Don’t Wait!

Rather than wait for your fix, please check in on the videos from previous events, think about the questions you would like Gavin to ask and standby for full panel details throughout the week.

Social Media for Social Good (13/04/10)

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:36:43 +0000

DONATIONS UPDATE: Thanks for your Generosity! You Donated $350 to the Ice Bucket. After deductions for expenses of $150 we have $200 left to donate to selected charities.

We have already donated $100 on your behalf to the Oxfam Trailwalker team involving our MC Massive – Alan Jones. Feel free to add to this worthy cause.

We’ll be asking you where the other $100 should go later this week. Stay tuned – and again thanks for your support!

New Digital Citizens Event: Panellists and Subject Announced

The next Digital Citizens event is Social Media for Social Good – the subject was selected by audience vote.

Can social media really make a difference, or by becoming a ‘fan’ on Facebook or following a charity on Twitter, are we simply assuaging our guilt without actually creating change?

We saw Obama’s election demonstrate that social change can be enacted using online tools, but in the year since his inauguration, are activist campaigns seeing less and less response? The Copenhagen summit is one example, where despite massive online campaigning and activity, no tangible offline result was achieved – are audiences already fatigued, and do leaders, policy makers and those in power really pay attention to social media?

The evening will begin with a short presentation from Kim McKay of Klick Communications, who’ll be sharing the five things she learned from SXSW, followed by an open discussion of “what’s hot on the social web” before presentations from our panellists.

Speakers include Karalee Evans, Mark Chenery, Nic McKay and David Hood, and will be moderated by Alan Jones. The panel will each present a brief overview of case studies using new technologies and the social web to effect social change, and will then take questions and open the debate to the audience.

Working as a communications and public relations professional for nearly ten years, Karalee Evans has developed successful communications models for the corporate and government sectors and most recently a not-for-profit organisation. During three years working for social good at in a national youth mental health NFP, Karalee developed and delivered a successful social media and marketing campaign (recently awarded Silver and Bronze at the 32nd International Caples Awards) focussed on advocating youth mental health issues.

Mark Chenery is communications manager of anti-poverty agency ActionAid Australia and former digital marketing journalist at AdNews magazine. He’ll be speaking about Project TOTO, ActionAid Australia’s attempt to give poverty a voice through social media tools such as Twitter and blogs, giving Australians an insight into the realities of poverty and to give poor and marginalised people the opportunity to tell their stories on the world stage.

Nic Mackay is currently the Managing Director of The Human Race, a social entrepreneur and a thought leader regarding the future of “corporate social responsibility”. He co-founded The Oaktree Foundation, Australia’s largest and most successful youth-run aid and development organisation, founded an Australian/South African non-profit organisation called Key Change Music, which is creating positive social change through music. Nic recently received the Rotary Club of Melbourne and Sir Albert Coates 2010 Young Achiever Awards.

Without realising it David Hood‘s career in social good started at the ripe old age of 8 – standing outside the local supermarket in Richmond
NSW collecting signatures to ‘Save the Baby Seals’. Since then David has volunteered as a fundraiser, event organiser and volunteer coordinator with a number of non-profit organizations including the Red Cross, World Vision, Twenty10 and Australia Tibet Council.

In 2007 he made the jump from being a financial supporter and cyberactivist to working full-time with one of the world’s largest
environmental campaigning organisations, Greenpeace (Working primarily on the Greenpeace climate campaign, for the last three years David has been
exploring ways to engage new supporters, encourage them to take action and work together to effect real change in the external world. David is
currently the Project Leader for Greenpeace Australia Pacific on their Nestlé Campaign.

We’re also pleased to present the ‘other’ Alan Jones (doingwords.com). He describes himself as, “Just like you, only less so.” This Alan Jones is a bit of a writer and technologist, with a passion for technology, science and medicine. Originally a journalist and then a product manager, Alan now works with early-stage companies and new product development teams. He’s been a founder and co-founder of web and mobile startups, and has had proper jobs in larger companies like Yahoo!, News Digital Media and Microsoft.

Digital Citizens is at the Burdekin on Tuesday, 13th of April. RSVP to eventbrite