As part of the DCweek festival in Washington DC (http://dcweek2011.sched.org/), we are holding a workshop on "learning Hindi language through social media".
It's free and online.
I would like to welcome you to our workshop. You can join the workshop using the instructions below:
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Meeting information
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Topic: Learn Hindi through Social Media
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Time: 12:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Meeting Number: 731 897 007
Meeting Password: dcweek
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To start or join the online meeting
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Go to https://freetrial.webex.com/freetrial/j.php?ED=157359092&UID=495925387&PW=NMzUxN2UzM2Mx&RT=MiM0
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Audio conference information
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Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-650-429-3300
Access code:731 897 007
The DC Time Bank creates circles of giving and receiving. In the DC Time Bank, the unit of exchange is an hour and everyone’s time is valued equally. People exchange language, music, art, cooking, gardening, and design skills, editing and business plan reviews, child and pet care, car rides, and more. There are Time Banks around the country and the world, and the DC Time Bank has over 250 members.
For the upcoming Benevolent Media Festival on November 4-7, we’re launching a Benevolent Media Exchange. We’ll connect people interested in sharing skills with people interested in learning skills for storytelling and design for good. Skills could include anything from exchanging photography skills to sharing social media tips for nonprofit advocacy. By using the DC Time Bank platform, we’ll be able to create ongoing connections between people interested in these ideas! Fill out this form to join in the fun. We’ll do our best to find you a match and send you an invitation to our face-to-face meetup on Saturday, November 5 at 12:00 p.m. at Bread for the City.
Examples of Exchanges in Storytelling and Design for Good
Storytelling techniques
Website design and development
Videography and filmmaking
PhotographyBlogging
Graphic design
Social media outreach
Music performance and production
Advertising and marketing
JournalismWriting and editing
To participate, fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dFU0dEpEVWhIeDZ6T2hVYVlURGR1YXc6MQ#gid=0
For more information, contact Allison Basile at allison.basile [at] dctimebank [dot] org.
The session will highlight the significance of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc., and its initiative to sponsor an intergeneration program to promote education among inner city youth with the local club, Washington and Vicinity Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc., responsible for carrying out its mission in Washington, DC.
The BOSS Group presents: GOOD by DESIGN 2011, a charity design day benefiting DC area non-profits
Ever have that moment of clarity where you realized that you are in exactly the right place at the right time? That’s how we feel about being in the creative space and in the position to help out some local organizations hard-pressed by recent economic challenges. The BOSS Group has been serving creatives in the Washington DC metro area for over 22 years, first as designers ourselves then as a staffing agency for the industry. This fall, we’re especially pleased to be partnering with The Art Institute of Washington to host GOOD by DESIGN, a charity design day benefiting DC area non-profits November 6, 2011. This 10-hour design-a-thon will pair local area non-profits with leading creative professionals in the metro region for a day of pro bono design, marketing and interactive work.
Additional Info:
We are seeking non-profits who need a creative hand in the following categories and volunteers to help execute:
Corporate Identity
Logo/Identity Letterhead & Envelopes Business Cards
Print
Poster Brochure Newsletter Direct Mail
Interactive & Web
Email/Template Banner/Ads Website Social Media Set Up (Facebook fan page or group, WordPress, Twitter) Social Media Skins
Other Design, Marketing or Interactive Projects
Greenspace, a brand new DC-based green building learning and resource hub to be located at Nationals Park, is looking for fresh and exciting ideas for launching the living classroom and its programs. Join entrepreneurs, innovators, web (and real estate) designers and developers, social media strategists, sustainability enthusiasts, and others as we take the Greenspace vision into reality.
As a jumping off point, the Greenspace design and development team, and a few of its business and education partners, will first provide an overview of the project. Then the event participants will take the reins in a world café-style co-creation charrette (collaborative design and development) session. Participants will have access to the design and development team and Greenspace design and construction plans and specifications, photos and renderings, surveys, and video files for your product and program innovation.
Be sure to eat lunch beforehand! We don't want any famished brainstormers!
Public Transit: Use the DC Circulator Georgetown - Union Station line operating at 10 minute intervals. Although it operates primarily along Wisconsin Avenue, K Street, and Massachusetts Avenue you will get off on M St. NW between 30th and 31st Street at Thomas Jefferson Street then look for Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts, 1055 Thomas Jefferson Street, Lower Level and you will find us!
This event is part of the Benevolent Media Festival, an all-volunteer project celebrating storytelling and design for good, organized during Digital Capital Week.
Sponsored by Stone Soup Films, a nonprofit film cooperative based in DC, this workshop is a practical look at communications challenges many nonprofits face and how a film can help move the ball forward. This is a hands-on exercise, with real-life scenarios and examples. The workshop will be held at the World Resources Institute, a global environmental think thank.
#DCRESIDENCE http://dcresidence.tumblr.com/ from Nov 5 – 10th will be activating two spaces along the H St Corridor presenting DC as the best place to call home. These temporary “third places” provide an opportunity for all walks of life to experience innovative communities as well as spaces in their neighborhoods in different ways. We also have AWESOME emerging entrepreneurial social innovators that are part of the DIY DC cultural fabric showcasing their work!
Nov 7th - Nov 10th
5pm - 11pm daily
THE PARLOUR http://dcresidence.tumblr.com/parlour will host weekday programming Nov 7th – 10th inspired and led by these creative social innovators. We invite you to continue conversations sparked over the weekend and have dialogue around questions such as: where is our city, culture & communities heading? What do we want to do? How do we want to get there?
How you can get involved:
Come to our events!
Invest in #DCRESIDENCE on eventbrite http://dcresidencedcweek.eventbrite.com/ :-)
Don't forget to check out THE HOME on Nov 5th + Nov 16th
Objectives:
· To assess the impact of emerging technologies and evolving social and cultural perceptions/behaviors on philanthropic activity and charitable giving.
· To understand how both for- and non-profit organizations are adapting their business models to reflect this new environment.
· To discuss creative/innovative fundraising models made possible through these new technologies.
· To discuss the future of charitable giving and how it will continue to evolve in the coming years.
Structure:
· The preliminary structure would be:
· 30 minute pre-session networking/lunch
· 10 minute presentations by the panelists about the role of research and technology in shaping their organization’s mission or cause
· 40 minutes Q&A
Panelists:
· Brendan Hurley, SVP, Marketing & Communications for Goodwill of Greater Washington
· Addie Connor, Director of Advertising, Social Code
· Brian Fujito, CEO, Razoo
Target Audiences:
Primary event targets include:
· Professional marketing researchers
· Non-profit/charity organization executives
· Executives/staff involved in CSR activities within for-profit organizations
· Marketing research students
· Social media/social community managers
The Pro Bono Consulting Lounge will offer quick and reliable access to local area non-profits who will be matched with exact talents needed to help non-profits grow, seize opportunities, or solve critical business challenges.
Powered by highly skilled volunteer consultants specializing in tech, design, strategy, social media, communications, and other areas, the Pro Bono Consulting Lounge will build the capacity of non-profit organizations throughout the DC region.
At DCWEEK 2010, 42 Project matches were made between non-profits and volunteer consultants. Projects ranged from helping non-profits with logos and identity, to technical updates on their websites, to understanding available tools for activating their memberships for fundraising. Some non-profits wanted help with social media and managing social networks for the purpose of networking, recruiting volunteers, and announcing events and others just needed general consulting about their sites.
Including planning, preparation, designing & coordination of the lounge and projects plus the value of the consulting itself, this project contributed $125,000 worth of time and services donated on behalf of DC area organizations. This was one of the biggest success stories from DCWEEK last year and we know this year can be even better!
How you can get involved:
Consultants: Got consulting skills in tech, design, strategy, social media, communications, etc.? Then we want you to volunteer a couple of hours of your time on Friday 11/11 to advise local area non-profits. Visit http://bit.ly/vol2011 to sign up!
Non-Profits: Need help with tech, design, strategy, social media, communications, etc.? Then we want you to sign up to come in and spend a couple of hours of your time on Friday 11/11 with some of DC’s most qualified consultants. Visit http://bit.ly/npo2011 to register your project!
We need:
A couple of hours of your time and enthusiasm!
About the Organizer:
The Pro Bono Consulting Lounge is run by the DCWEEK team in partnership with HandsOn Greater DC Cares and our volunteer planning committee.
HandsOn Greater DC Cares Skilled Volunteer program offers year-round opportunities to get involved in pro bono projects that build the capacity of our nonprofit partner organizations
We want YOU to help us develop a tool/system/interface/application that helps bring new types of information to underserved individuals who use Twitter (or other social media platforms). It’s our hope that we can add this new tool/system/interface/application to an existing website called BRIDGE (http://www.thebridgeprojectdc.org/), which uses traditional methods of information and resource gathering to support DC’s most vulnerable populations and community based organizations. Though our focus will be on an initial case study of the online homeless, this project will be transferable across domains from politics related to upcoming elections or social movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street..
Gamification Perspectives
Diverse approaches to engagement, design, problem solving, & avoiding the buzz
The process of using game thinking and game mechanics in non-game environments has taken off in 2011 and made gamification quite the buzz word. The underlying concepts are not new, and beyond the buzz many organizations are finding success by approaching business needs and problems with this creative approach to designing engaging experiences.
Panelists representing a diverse set of interests ranging from social good and education, design and development, and software as a service for enterprise application, will discuss their observations of what works and what doesn't in the field of gamification.
Afterwards, attendees will have the opportunity to talk further with the panel and other attendees interested in the topic. The event is appropriate for those new to the field, as well as those who may be coming with specific design challenges or organizational issues.
Panelists to date
Twitter hashtag: #gamifydc
The event takes place just down the street from the Artisphere, the primary conference venue for DC Week.
