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BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. It is sometimes also called un-conference.

 

Barcamp Nonprofits London -  2012 

 

Please note: our next event is in planning stage so you will gradually see more and more specific information here. 

 

When: Friday, 17th of February 2012

 

Main website: http://barcampnonprofits.com/ 

Tickets: http://barcampnonprofitslondon.eventbrite.co.uk/

 

Where:  London

 

Sponsors 

Big thank you to Voice for helping us out initially and JustGiving for offering again their media sponsorship! We have been very fortunate to receive media sponsorship from UK Fundrasing as well! Big thank you to all our sponsors! 

 

Big, big, BIG THANK YOU to the Prince's Foundation for the venue and great support on the way! 

 

We are actively looking for sponsors, so if you have any suggestions, do let us know!

  

Suggested Schedule

 

• 10-11AM: Registration, event opening, scheduling of the sessions
• 11AM-1.15PM:Morning sessions
• 1.15PM -2.30 PM: Lunch sessions
• 2.30PM - 5.30 PM: Afternoon sessions, wrapping up
• Dinner and drinks - in one of London pubs or restaurants

 

 

Planners

Name	Organization	Contact details	Interests
Sylwia Presley	Voice	sylwiapresley@gmail.com/@presleysylwia	social media ethics, transparency, word of mouth marketing for nonprofits, safe Internet for kids
Howard Lake	UK Fundraising	@howardlake	social media and digital fundraising
Nick Watts	Voice	@nickinoxford	social media and fundraising
Amy Oberholzer		@ALO365	social media and fundraising
Laila Takeh			social media and fundraising
Lrzysztof Pawliszak		@globalvoicespol	activism, citizen journalism, social media

 

 

Volunteers/Participants/Speakers (aka Campers)

• Sylwia Presley, @presleysylwia, Voice/GlobalVoices - organising and on the day
• Howard Lake, @howardlake, UKFundraising,
• Nick Watts, @nickinoxford, Voice
• Amy Oberholzer, @ALO365,
• Laila Takeh,
• Krzysztof Pawliszak, @glbalvoicespol, helping on the day
• Euan Semple, @euan, speaker
• David Dixon, speaker 
• @Gr22data, speaker
• @reyes, speaker
•  
• add yourself and let us know how you can contribute
• Name, Twitter id, company, what you would like to help with?  

 

Proposed Sessions

 

Time	Social Media for Fundrasising	Data/Open source/API/ Transparency/Ethics and privacy	Social Media and Volunteering/Campaigning	Social Media and Silos	Virtual sessions
11-11.45AM
11.45AM-12.30		Kids and Social Media, Myths of Safe Internet Experience (Sylwia Presley)			Social Media in Egypt during #Jan25 (@Gr22data via Skype)
12.30-1.15 PM
1.15PM - 2.30PM	suggested by organizers	suggested by organizers	suggested by organizers	suggested by organizers	suggested by organizers
2.30-3.15PM
3.15-4PM
4-4.45PM
4.45-5.30PM

 

Few topics to get you thinking about yours;) 

 

• Online fundraising tools
• Social media for event management
• Applying social media across the organization
• How to convince your marketing team to use the power of social media?
• How to promote your college on-line?
• Using geo-location tools (Foursquare, Panoramio) for campaigning
• Creative ideas to take your on-line presence to the next level 
• (your suggestions)  

 

 

 

Task List

(please -cross out- when it's done)

Tech

• Wifi - not provided by the venue, attendees must bring their own, few mifi accounts will be available (for event bloggers?), ...
• Projectors - one confirmed, ...
• Photo 
• Video 
• Audio 
• Streaming 
• Official blogging 

 

Non-tech

• Breakfast (coffee!) - we will not start without it;) 
• Lunch - cutlery available from last event
• Stationery - some bits and pieces are still available from last event, 
• Badges - closer to the date, use QR codes for basic info

 

 

Tags for the event:

Please use the tag #barcampnfp for content related to this event.

 

You can find us on Twitter as @barcampnfp.

 

Who's blogging?

Let us know if you intent to blog about it - it is your place for shameless self-promotion;)

 

 

 

Barcamp Nonprofits 2010 project

 

As a part of our barcamp we will be developing a pilot project for a charity of our choice (voting during the event) to showcase the benefits of social media for nonprofit organisations. We will use this wiki to log our notes and allow our virtual attendees to contribute too. We are waiting for your suggestions and ideas!

 

Project suggestions:

• (add your points here)

 

Our last project:

 

Initial ideas:

Support a small charity with a social media competence to develop their own strategy.

 

Notes from the event:

We have decided to support Against Breast Cancer. Sylwia Presley, Bernard Galewski and Graeme Hunter committed to run this project. 

 

Project plan:

3 sessions of social media training to tackle current issues with internal comms, marketing and potential for social media engagement.

Series of brainstorming sessions to work out the ways for social media support of fundraising (Oxford Battle of the Bands - fundraising event).

 

Final update:

We will present the result of our work durin the next event.