March 10, 2009 5:30 PM. 61 attended.

Twitter Talk Panel

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Join us for Twitter Talk - a panel discussion about the how to's and challenges of using Twitter to promote your nonprofit or charity to potential funders, members, and volunteers.

Event Details:


  • Tuesday, March 10th, 5:30-7:30 p.m. @ CSI - 1st flr.
  • Attendees will have an opportunity to pose questions to a panel of Twitter leaders (see below for panelists bios) about their experiences of using Twitter to promote, and affect change.

There is no charge for the event, but we ask that you please join the Meetup group, and register. Space is limited, RSVP today!

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Twitter Talk Panelists:

Sarah Prevette is a serial entrepreneur, seasoned marketer and community evangelist. Her ideas on overcoming barriers to entry and growth strategies come from her own epic failures and humbling wins. Her use of twitter spans personal networking (@sarahprevette), business development (@RedWire) and fundraising for charity (@TwestivalTO). Sarah is the Founder and CEO of RedWire, an online community facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration between entrepreneurs.

Elena Yunusov was instrumental in helping to organize HoHoTO (http://hohoto.ca...) a social media-focused holiday fundraising party for "geeks, phreaks, webheads, twitterfiends, techies, media, marketing, and PR types--and all their friends. Proceeds of the event were donated to the Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank--raising $25K in 13 days.

Evelyn So, the Founder and President, is a veteran in the digital arena. Her track record
includes various innovations that are today’s necessities (e.g. Interactive Web, Internet
Banking, Video on Demand, Interactive TV, Broadband services, Web 2.0, etc.). Prior to
establishing Noesium (http://noesium.wordpr...) Evelyn held senior positions in both corporations and agencies in Canada and the U.K.

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About TechSoup Canada

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http://www.techsoupca...

  • Martin Cleaver
    Martin Cleaver

    Clashes with Toronto Wiki Tuesday, otherwise I'd be there.

    Posted February 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM
  • mireille
    mireille

    I too may have to change as I also belong to Toronto Wiki Toronto

    Posted February 24, 2009 at 12:11 PM
  • Jon Alexander
    Jon Alexander

    Hi, does the event start at 5:30 pm or 7 pm? Two different times are given at different places on the web site. Thanks!

    Posted March 10, 2009 at 10:21 AM
  • Evelyn So
    Evelyn So

    Love the feedback! If you want to get acquainted with Twitter, please feel free to follow me http://www.twitter.com/evelynso and we can explore the Twitterville together.

    Cheers
    Evelyn

    Posted March 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM
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4.50 4.5011 (11 ratings)
  • Event Host
    Donnie Claudino
  • Jon Alexander
    (Not sure on attendance numbers - looked like maybe 60-70?) Good talk - learned about some successful non-profit initiatives using Twitter that I hadn't heard of previously. Could have been a tad more dynamic perhaps - needed maybe a seasoned speaker to take an active role21 and keep things flowing and interesting?
  • Nick
    The panel was informative however the questions were left until the end and that extended the session longer than expected.
  • Lori
    Co-Organizer
    Now I see that Twitter is a powerful tool to engage the community...
  • Gadjo Sevilla
    Great and informative talk with a good selection of speakers whio covered each of their topics well despite the time limit. Some comments, the venue was way too warm to be comfortable and many guest were fanning themselves and complaining about the heat but nothing was (could be?) done about this. Also, it would have been good to allot Q and A time after each speaker. Organzers decided to save all the questions until the end of the talk which was inconvenient as you loose your train of thought. i had to skip out early and did not get a chance to field any questions. It was quite clever that some attendees were live Tweeting the event which really aided the whole iprocess. I was able to "follow" the talks even as I was on a streetcar.
  • Marc Lachance
    I have no experience with Twitter, so the introduction was a good idea and well done. I was amazed at how much could be accomplished in so little time. I will have to investigate.
  • Sue
    the presentations were good but I thought the event was going to be more about the nuts and bolts of using twitter - there were only about ten people (myself included) who currently were using twitter, and so recommendations about using hash tags isn't helpful if your audience doesn't know what hash tags are. I hope there's another one on how to use it. Interesting presentations though!
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