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Register now for Engage Your Community

Community organisations close to Wellington, this one’s for you! Remember: on 4 September 2008 the Engage Your Community Wellington conference takes place. The day will introduce online tools that help an organisation in this age of electronic information — via hands-on workshops, presentations and case studies by people in touch with the community sector. Early [...]

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Webstock – it’s a passion

Mike Brown has written a great post called Webstock – the past and the future about the fabulous Webstock conference and minis: We ran it as volunteers, outside of work hours and, again and mostly, as fans. Around 500 attended in February [2008], and again it had a wonderful feeling of community and being part [...]

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Webstock 09 – in planning

Planning is underway for Webstock 09: We’ve booked the Town Hall venue in Wellington again for the week of 16th – 20th February 2009. After being part of the organising group for two glorious Webstock conferences, and the various Minis etc, I have recently, reluctantly withdrawn. There’s a huge amount of work in organising such [...]

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Engage your Community – a community conference

I’ve been a little preoccupied recently because of a one-day conference I’m presenting at in Hamilton next week. Engage your Community: Using Blogs, YouTube and other Cool Tools to achieve your group’s goals is for community groups, to help them connect with volunteers, staff, and other stakeholders . In the last couple of years I’ve [...]

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Whew. Coming to from Webstock

Whew! It’s astonishing just how much of a month one conference can swallow up. As one of the organisers of Webstock (11 to 15 February 2008) I had a lot to do in the first couple of weeks of February. Many other activities went on hold for a while as organisational activities reached a peak. [...]

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4 weeks till Webstock

It’s now only 4 weeks till Webstock – Code for Freedom – New Zealand’s web conference. We have a fabulous programme, with excellent speakers, loads of interesting people registered to attend, and cool stuff, such as the Dinner and general merriment with the Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra (brought to us by Google). If you haven’t [...]

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