More on the forum in Calgary
I posted on my blog about the conference, and got some interesting feedback from people, not all of whom attended the Forum.
Category : Blogroll
Tags: calgary, canadian social forum, Poverty
I posted on my blog about the conference, and got some interesting feedback from people, not all of whom attended the Forum.
Category : Blogroll
Tags: calgary, canadian social forum, Poverty
From May 19 through the 22nd, we’ll be at the FIRST Canadian Social Forum!
We’re very excited to be attending this event and offering our workshop: The Power of Social Media, which we are co-presenting with our friends, Athena Lothian from the Métis Nation of Alberta and Yvonne Poitras Pratt from the University of Calgary.
Our session is designed to explain and demystify the term “social media” and demonstrate the advantages, ease and fun (!) that interactive Internet practises can offer individuals and organizations. Athena and Yvonne will lead a hands-on Digital Storytelling component of the workshop which CITIZENShift will then host on the site!
The full program for the Forum is currently on the CSF website. It’s going to be hard to chose which workshops to attend as they all look so engaging. And, for that reason, FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG, right here throughout the three day event and follow us on Twitter.
It is a great privilege to be collaborating on such a significant Forum–one that seeks to address and find solutions to poverty. I hope you’ll enjoy the reactions and opinions of this event in the blog posts to come. Stay tuned!
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Tags: calgary, canadian social forum, Poverty, social media
We’re blogging LIVE from the Canadian Social Forum! Here, community leaders from social development, public health, environment, community safety and recreation are brought together. The Forum targets poverty – both urban and rural. Workshops by aboriginal presenters doing innovative work across the country will play a critical role.
Arti Patel is a third-year journalism student at Ryerson, specializing in online and television journalism. She enjoys mentoring and exploring different cultures and their lifestyles. Currently she is the volunteer and outreach coordinator at Verse City.
Pam Shime is the Founding Director of the Global Advocacy & Leadership Initiative (GALI), which is being launched in the summer of 2009 after five years of dynamic incubation at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Through GALI, Pam teaches and advises on advocacy and leadership on the basis of global and cross-disciplinary research, including interviews with top advocates from around the world. Pam received a 2008 U of T Teaching Award for her course, “How to Make Change.”
Penny Goldsmith is the Executive Co-ordinator of PovNet, an online resource for anti-poverty advocates, based in British Columbia. She is currently the recipient of the inaugural Alan Thomas Fellowship from the Carold Institute and is writing a book about PovNet and building online communities.
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