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York Community Data Sharing Symposium 11

June 7th, 2009

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The York Community Data Sharing Symposium 11 was a way cool event. Sponsored by the York Region District School Board, York University Knowledge Mobilization Department, Kinark Child & Family Services and other key stakeholders, this event sought to create an online dialogue about sharing research data.

The official tag line was “How an Electronic Commons Can Help Us Tackle Poverty in York Region. To accomplish this virtual meeting space, the ABEL network from York University set up their cameras and microphones broadcasting simultaneously to 4 different sites.

The Social Non Profit – My Lens

A social non profit is attuned, responsive and adaptive to the complex factors affecting its constituents and communities. In a social non profit there is an alignment between staff, services, governance systems and online communications. Social non profits value learning and innovation and believe in working smarter by using social tech tools to enhance communication, collaboration and learning amongst staff, volunteers, partners and service users. These organizations believe that strategic use of social media empowers staff, improves services and strengthens governance practices.

Social Web Partners

I'm very pleased to have a number of very capable and talented consultants as friends and partners that work with me from time to time.

Alain Hurtubise (iAutomate.ca) designs and developments web 2. 0 platforms. Alain has over 20 years experience in web design and enterprise systems programming with large corporations. Alain's passion is paying it forward through his work with me in the non profit sector.

Peter Levesque's company, Knowledge Mobilization Works (based in Ottawa) is dedicated to building the capacity of people to create value through knowledge mobilization.

Mark Holmgren (Mark Holmgren Consulting - Edmonton AB) contributes his extensive organizational change expertise along with an array of social media integration expertise.