So!VolTech
Social Media & Technology Conference for the Voluntary Sector
So! VolTech is a North West Conference on Social Media & Technology for the Voluntary Sector on Saturday 19th November 2011. With voluntary sector organisations having to move quickly with current social media trends and technology advances it is important to share good practice and get together as a group to discuss the issues and find the solutions. You can follow the news leading up to and after the event on the blog
So… Where is it?
Blackpool Central Library
Queen Street
FY1 1PX Blackpool
United Kingdom
So… What's on the agenda?
| 09:30 | Registration (tea & coffee) |
| 10:00 | Welcome & intros |
| 10:15 | John Popham — The Power of Social Media |
| 10:25 | Joseph Stashko — Hyperlocal & voluntary sector. |
| 10:35 | Steven Flower — Fixing a leaky roof with social media |
| 10:45 | Break (tea & coffee) |
| 11:00 | Gary Copitch — Working with communites to produce local content |
| 11:10 | Jez Myers — Riot clean up Manchester. |
| 11:20 | Panel discussion |
| 11.40 | Sessions with @BeGoodBeSocial, @MyLearningPool and @PluginLancs |
| 12.00 | Unconference explaination & session suggestions |
| 12:15 | Lunch (buffet, tea & coffee) |
| 13.00 | Extra session suggestions & recap of sessions |
| 13:15 | Unconference slot 1 |
| 14:00 | Unconference slot 2 |
| 14:45 | Unconference slot 3 |
| 15:30 | Closing thoughts & where do we go from here |
So… What on earth is SO!Voltech?
In Blackpool we’ve been holding social media surgeries for a couple of months and have found that there is a real demand in the voluntary sector for events of this kind. With this in mind (and because we love a challenge) we’ve decided to try something a bit bigger – and that is So! VolTech.
We aim to bring together voluntary sector organisations, web developers, hyperlocal news outlets and social media “surgeons” from across the North West on Saturday 19th November 2011 in Blackpool to get around the table, expand our networks and look for solutions.
So… Who are the speakers?
John Popham
John is an independent consultant, facilitating community, economic, business, and personal development, largely through the power of social media and new technologies.
Joseph Stashko
Joseph is a journalist and blogger studying at UCLAN. He uses social media to cover breaking news, edits Blog Preston and organises the Preston Social.
Jez Myers
Creator of @riotcleanupmanc and co-admin of facebook group that amassed a collective 15,000 followers in 12 hours. JCI award winner for 'contribution to the community'.
Steven Flower
Steven has working in and around non-profit technology all his working life. That even includes desktop hardware support. Steven will talk about how social media almost helped fixed the leaky roof of a youth centre. Although in fact, selling t-shirts online was far more useful.
Gary Copitch
Gary Copitch is the Chief Executive of the not for profit organisation People's Voice Media which uses social media for community engagement and runs the national community reporters programme.
So … What're we tweeting about?
#SOVOLTECH11
@SOVOLTECH
#BLACKPSMS
So… Who should we be thanking?
