Social Media Club Victoria

Our June 20th meeting focuses on Creative Commons Licensing: the do’s and don’ts of content sharing and the right way to “borrow” information, quotations and images for your blog and social networking profile. On the flip side, we will also look at how to go about copyrighting and licensing content for the online world.

Our featured speaker is Scott Leslie.

Scott is a self-described educational technologist, hacker, researcher and open content/open network activist. He currently works as the Manager of Client Services in Open Education for BCcampus, a province-wide post-secondary agency in British Columbia, Canada.

Well known to the local #yyj Twitterverse, Scott is an engaging presenter, and very passionate about open content and open educational resources. Follow him on Twitter here. He blogs at EdTechPost.

Please join us!

• Monday June 20th, 2011
• University of Victoria - SSM A102 (Social Sciences and Mathmatics Building Room A102)
• 6:45 – 9:00 pm
• Cost is $5.00

 Floods, tornadoes, earthquakes – it seems that not a week goes by without news of a major natural disaster wreaking havoc somewhere in the world.

What role can social media play when it comes to responding to these emergencies?

This is the focus of our May 16th meeting, led by Hervey Simard with the Victoria Police Department. His presentation will  touch on:

• Examples where SM has helped during a major disaster – such as Haiti (to include videos) 
• SM in Disasters & Emergencies (American Red Cross Study) 
• 5 lessons for Emergency Managers
• Ushahidi 
• VicPD moving with SM: what we are planning to do and what we are already doing with SM 
• What can you do to help? (discussion)

Hervey Simard is the Information Technology Supervisor for the Victoria Police Department. He is responsible for the design and implementation of the first and cutting edge social media strategy and program for VicPD which has garnered national attention from police departments all over Canada. His experience as an early pioneer of interactive marketing and PR has made him a highly sought after speaker to discuss social media strategies and new technologies, specifically as it relates the world of policing.

Hervey was the project leader for the 2008 and 2009 on-line Annual Report for VicPD which was recognized nationally as an innovative application in law enforcement and he initiated the 2010 Olympic Torch Run mass media communications plan using Twitter and Facebook to fan-out updates and general information during the first day of the run in Victoria.

You can connect with Hervey on Twitter via @HerveySimard.

Meeting Details:

• Monday May 16th
• University of Victoria - SSM A102 (Social Sciences and Mathmatics Building Room A102)
• 6:45 – 9:00 pm
• Cost is $5.00



Our January meeting features three great examples of using social media to mobilize a community for a good cause.

• Janine Theobald was new to Twitter and blogging (but not to community activism). She recently ran a very successful #twamper drive for Christmas – sourced entirely through her blog and Twitter.

• The people from Loading, Ready, Run and their Desert Bus fundraiser – all done online. They raised almost $210,000 this year. An amazing local sketch comedy troop.

• Chris Ruffell, head creative at Aclara Promotions, a Victoria video production company. Chris and Aclara were part of the team who shot the U-Vic Lipdub viral video last fall. The video, which went live on Oct. 23, logged over 20,000 hits in its first day.

Join us January 17th:

• 6:45 – 9:00 pm
• Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St (across from A-Channel)

See you on the 17th!!