Web of Change

While it's never fun to have to turn interested people away, we're delighted to announce that the Social Tech Training is sold out.

With just over a week to go, we're very excited to be bringing together such a talented and diverse group of people for three days of intensive learning.

If you were hoping to attend, and missed your chance to register, please send an email to julia@communicopia.com. We'll put you on the waiting list, and make sure to keep you appraised of future events!

With just less than four weeks to go, the Social Tech Training is starting to fill up quickly. If you've been thinking about attending this unique learning opportunity, please don't wait too long to get registered. 

To get a sense of what you'll learn, if you haven't yet checked out the agenda, please do! This agenda is a full A to Z of everything you need to know to be a world class online campaigner/fundraiser/promotions whiz. Day 1 focuses on Expanding Your Universe of Supporters, Day 2 on Engaging the Supporters You Have, and Day 3 on Aligning Your Organization (and you!) for Success. 

We're very excited to announce that we've confirmed Ricken Patel as our keynote speaker for the Social Tech Training. Ricken is the co-founder of Avaaz – the world's largest global online advocacy organization.

Avaaz is member-driven, and 3.2 million people strong. If you've been alive, and on the internet, you've almost certainly received (and perhaps signed) one of their petitions in the past year. Just last week, they ran the fastest growing petition of all time, gathering 1.5 million signatures for Tibet. You'll also recognize them from the now-famous campaign that turned the tides in Bali at the climate change talks last December, mobilizing over 300,000 people in 72 hours and forcing governments to listen to the voices of concerned citizens.

We’ve been hard at work the past few weeks, putting together a strong and comprehensive agenda for the Social Tech Training.

Working with a team of experienced social tech leaders, our biggest challenge has been to choose what to focus on! Many of the topics we’ve selected could be entire workshops in and of themselves.

We’ve done our best to select the topics that we feel are the most useful to social change organizations, and to arrange the “flow” for maximum effect.

The Social Tech Training website (and registration!) is now live.

We're really excited about this workshop – it's our biggest event of this year, we've got a handful of talented Web of Changers on faculty, and we're working with a terrific team at MaRS. Plus, the agenda is shaping up to be amazing – to our knowledge, there is no other training like this.

As you know, many organizations (companies as well as NGOs) these days are seeking that mythical person who understands the web, understands social networks, understands the opportunities and the challenges that the web offers for deepening engagement, and can take leadership in that space. So we've created the training we would want to go to, and send our staff to – to help people create leaders and build capacity to harness the web as a tool for social change.