Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Community Events Guide for the week of Jan 11th to January 15th, 2010. Each and every Monday, we list upcoming events in the web, technology, marketing, social media, public relations and communications space in Toronto and bring them to you. Event details are provided by the simply awesome YouSayYeah Calendar and Eventbrite. Don’t see your event listed here? Get in touch with your event details.
There’s alot going on this week, so let’s jump into it!
Development
AJAX Pub Nite
January 11th 2010, 7:00pm-11:00pm
The Rhino (1249 Queen Street West)
Ajax Pub Nite is an idea and a group of people. The idea is simple – get together regularly and discuss things that relate to ajax, javascript, the web at large and see what creativity gets sparked. We meet on the second Monday of each month at the Rhino @ 7pm onward for beer and discussion. Come on out and have a pint.
Tickets not sold – feel free to show up!
Podcasting
Podcast Basics: An easy way to share your organization’s messaging online
January 12th 2010, 5:30pm
Centre for Social Innovation, 1st Floor Boardroom (215 Spadina Ave)
Many of you probably have heard of podcasts. A Podcast is just an audio file that is syndicated via an RSS feed, that you download and listen to with your computer or a portable device such as an iPod. it’s similar to having your own radio talk show, with topics ranging from health, arts & culture or raising awareness for social causes. For this meet up we will feature two organizations that have been using podcasts and we will take you through the steps of how to make one yourself!
Disclosure: I will be speaking at this event.
Tickets ($5)
Information Architecture
UX Irregulars – January 2010
January 12th 2010, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Spice Safar (510 King Street West)
It’s a new year and the second Tuesday is almost here, which means it’s time for our monthly UX Irregulars meetups to resume. Join your fellow UXers for an evening networking, peer mentorship and great conversations about user experience design in a relaxed, social atmosphere.
At our holiday meetup we discussed topics as varied as James Cameron’s Avatar, UX career paths and opportunities, discipline and rigour in design, Agile UX, and building robots that can deliver beverages upon command.
All who share an interest in designing and creating great experiences are welcome.
Tickets (free)
Social Media
Measurement is Sexy
January 14th 2010, 6:00pm-10:00pm
The Pilot (22 Cumberland Street)
It is the beginning of a new year which leads to the conversation “how are we going to be more successful than last year.” From business to marketing, advertising to public relations, IT to digital innovation – at the end of the day it all comes down to the return on investment.
On January 14th the League of Kickass Business People is hosting “Measurement is Sexy”: intelligently taking a deeper look into measurement. We would like to bring experts in to show that measurement (albeit important) does not have to be as daunting as it seems.
We’ll be discussing:
- General discussion on measurement
- Intelligently measuring social media
- Visualizing the ROI
- The competitiveness behind analytics
This will not be a boring conversation with one person rambling on the whole night. We like to think of these events as the beginning of a conversation for everyone to continue at the end of the night. In the end, the message is that measurement does not have to be daunting if you take the time to understand these concepts and put them into action.
Tickets (pricing structure varies)
Entrepreneurship
CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101
January 13th 2010, 5:30pm-6:30pm
MaRS Discovery District (101 College St)
Interested in learning more about entrepreneurship? Looking to start a new venture? Wondering what can be done for your career during this recessionary climate? Look no further! Presented by CIBC, MaRS offers a free, non credit introductory course on entrepreneurship that introduces individuals to the nuts and bolts of building a business.
We are looking to introduce graduate students, post-docs, faculty, technicians, administrators, nonprofit executives and other management level professionals to a variety of topics including financing, defining markets, hiring teams, protecting intellectual property and raising capital.
Tickets (free)
Toronto Entrepreneur Advisory Roundtable #3
January 14th 2010, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Centre for Social Innovation, 4th Floor (Alterna Meeting Room) (215 Spadina Ave)
If you are a small business owner or social-entrepreneur interested in growing your business, start the New Year with an interactive and collaborative experience. On January 14th, 2010, join our team of consultants for The Toronto Entrepreneur Advisory Roundtable. Six experienced consultants will meet with a small group of entrepreneurs (20 maximum) to offer advice, resources and brainstorming for your business issues. Tickets (pricing structure varies)
Technology
Unfinished Business Lecture Series – David Eaves: After the Collapse (January 14th 2010, 6:45pm-8:15pm)
OCAD, Main Auditorium (100 McCaul Street)
What do Facebook, 911 and NASA all have in common? They all offer us a window into how our industrial era government may be redesigned for the digital age. In this lecture David Eaves will look at how open methodologies, technology and social change is reshaping the way public service and policy development will be organized and delivered in the future: more distributed, adaptive and useful to an increasingly tech savvy public. Whether a interested designer, a disruptive programmer, a restless public servant or a curious citizen David will push your thinking on what the future has in store for the one institution we all rely on: Government. Tickets (free event)
Community/Civic Engagement
Design with Dialogue, January 13th 2010, 6:00pm-9:00pm
sLAB | Strategic Innovation Lab @ OCAD (100 McCaul Street)
An important event in Toronto in 2010 will be the municipal election. It is a chance for Torontonians to have a collective conversation about the city we want, and to make the election one instrument in creating that desired future. In keeping with the spirit of the Designing with Dialogue group of encouraging positive change, Daniel and Mark will guide the group through some of the theory and techniques espoused by Peter Block, a change maker from Cincinnati, Ohio. Block has written a book called “Community” that outlines techniques and conversations for deepening civic engagement. We will have a chance to learn about some of Block’s work and practice some of the techniques. Tickets (free event)
Mobile
What does the New iPhone and 3.0 SDK Mean for iPhone Developers? (January 14th 2010, 6:30pm)
The 3.1 SDK allows in-app purchases so developers can offer subscription content and provide the ability to sell new content and features in a simple and secure process from directly within their apps. Meanwhile, game developers can leverage the new peer-to-peer connections support to more easily create peer-to-peer network games for iPhone and iPod touch by using Bluetooth.
In this meetup developers will discuss how they are making use of these new features, particularly in regard to monetization. Tickets (free event)
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