I had a meeting with Marco Campana, Online Capacity Development Coordinator with OCASI (Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants) a few days ago. I initially met Marco at the Maytree Foundation’s 5 Good Ideas – lunch and learn series. He and his colleague Christopher were speaking about using social media with non profit organizations, a subject that I am extremely passionate about and that has become my new vocation. Marco is assisting many groups across the GTA use social media in their services and his Settlement.org site is a great example of what can be accomplished with these simple and inexpensive (mostly free) tools.

We had a great discussion and Marco helped me immeasurably by letting me know about the Net Tuesday group that meets monthly and discusses common interests and issues related to using social media in non profit organizations. I look forward to continued sharing, learning, refering and collaborating with Marco. I made a brief video that talks about my meeting and also gives me a chance to test out my new Kodack Zi6 camcorder.

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