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- Community Manager at Digital Opportunity TrustNonprofit Organization Management | Ottawa, Canada Area, CAExperience
- Oct 2010 - PresentCommunity Manager / Digital Opportunity Trust
As DOT's Community Manager, I coordinate communications and PR, write, produce, and edit web content, manage a community of thousands of youth, organize a series of annual virtual festivals, and mentor a network of 13 global teams as they navigate social media, blog, and produce creative projects.
Highlights so far:
- Developing and implementing a global multimedia awareness campaign, website redesign, and social media engagement strategy to promote DOT's 10th anniversary and 10 years of impact;
- Visiting many of DOT's countries of operation to document the impact of programs through video, photos, and interviews with beneficiaries;
- Establishing and developing a very large internal online community of thousands of youth from around the globe, with the opportunity to create exciting engagement strategies based on a foundation of digital storytelling;
- Spearheading a series of annual creativity festivals to facilitate staff, interns, and program participants using their own voices and lived experiences to share the impact of DOT's work (the DOT festival series was mentioned in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/entry/creativity_in_action/ ) - Jun 2010 - Nov 2011Editor (Visual Anthropology) / Popular Anthropology Magazine
As the Visual Anthropology Editor for Popular Anthropology Magazine, I edited the Ethnophotography and Visual Anthropology sections from the magazine's launch until October 2011. Editing for PopAnthro involved working extensively with artists, documentarians, anthropologists, students, and journalists to create interesting, accessible articles on a quarterly schedule.
- May 2009 - May 2010Social Planner, Geographic Information Services / Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton
At the SPRC I was a Social Researcher and Program Coordinator for the Community Mapping Service, a social enterprise offering custom research and GIS mapping to charitable and non-profit organizations. I pitched and developed both large and small-scale research projects, monitored and evaluated program outcomes, and worked with a great team of socially engaged researchers to help local organizations better understand the social and economic realities of living and working in Hamilton.
Projects that I worked on include:
- Hamilton Social Landscape (2011)
- Seeking Better Outcomes for Youth in Hamilton (2011)
- Hamilton Correctional Services Needs Assessment (2010)
- Hamilton Community Action Program for Children Evaluation (2010)
Education-
2004 - 2009University of WaterlooB.A. (Hons) in Double Major: Honours Anthropology and Honours Geography
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- RT @marionwalton: See the Twitter network clusters at #DOTUnconf https://t.co/fR7jUma0a0 @wougnet still top tweeter :) cc @helloanne http…
- At #DOTUnconf panel, @Ayshahmshe to gov't officials: "Unemployment policies don't work because youth are not engaged in their creation."
- Attending the @DigitalOppTrust Unconference in Nairobi? Live Blog with us at http://t.co/3IkXmXNLcD #DOTUnconf
- Welcome to our invited scholars, who joined us today at @DigitalOppTrust's Youth Unconference in Nairobi! #DOTUnconf http://t.co/w6WB0NzDho
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- RT @JanetLongmore: I'm speaking with @SchwabFound on @HuffPostLive about #SocEnt in just a moment - join the conversation: http://t.co/0 ...
- Hey, the awesome non-profit I work for is hiring an ICT Support Officer. Entry level, full time. Apply! http://t.co/ozsW1zyf #ottjobsFeb 14, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @DigitalOppTrust: DOT is hiring! We're looking for an ICT Support Officer in Ottawa. This is an entry-level position: http://t.co/NMF ...
- Happy new year from Madrid! The biggest, craziest crowd I've ever been a part o @ Plaza de la Puerta del Sol http://t.co/ttHAfBWw
- RT @HelloOttawa: What a neat idea from Calgary... "People from Calgary" photo postcards for free at the airport. http://t.co/l4mF8OCS
- It's -20 in Calgary and my rental car has heated seats. So basically I think I'm going to sit in this parking lot for the rest of the day.
- Excuse me while I go lay on the floor and have a panic attack while everything breaks the day before I leave on vacation.
- RT @OCHeadlines: Collected Works to close if no buyer found by Christmas Eve: The popular independent bookstore Collected Works h... htt ...
- RT @LauraBeeston: Café culture = creative culture. Neat study on why people work in busy coffee shops. So #Montreal via @TheAtlantic htt ...Nov 26, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens
Photography Credit Tyler Knott Gregson.In celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday, the National Film Board just posted this great tribute to Canadian women pioneering in film.
So interesting - from Ira Glass, Miranda July, Thao Nguyen - The Silent History: “A groundbreaking novel, written and designed specially for iPad/iPhone, that uses serialization, exploration, and collaboration to tell the story of a generation of unusual children…
The story is told through daily updates, about 1500 words each, delivered through the app each weekday. For readers who wish to explore the world of the novel in more depth, there are also hundreds of location-based stories across the U.S. and around the world.”A screencap: My coworker, Grace, gets a young woman camera-ready in Musanze, Rwanda. I’m [very!] slowly getting my East Africa footage organized and ready for editing.
On Sunday I’m leaving on a whirlwind three week trip to Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Lebanon to document the impact of Digital Opportunity Trust’s programs in video, photos, portraits, and interviews. I’ll also have the opportunity to finally meet in person some of the many amazing, committed people I work and Skype with daily.
I literally only had about five days notice that I would be going on this trip, so this week has been nutty. Today I’m getting vaccinated, insured, and making sure I’m stocked up on batteries, chargers, and external hard drives - all those fun things.
Have you been to Nairobi, Kigali, Addis Ababa, or Beirut? I won’t have very much time outside of work to be a tourist, but if you have any tips on things to see, do, or eat I would love to hear them.
The great non-profit organization I work for - Digital Opportunity Trust - is hiring a summer student in Ottawa. I know a few people who follow me here on Tumblr are Ottawa-based and job hunting. So: please apply! You’ll get to work with me all summer!
Link: The Guardian - Local bloggers: voices from the global village
My Hello Ottawa project (and my mug, as seen above!) was featured in an article about hyper-local blogging in the Guardian today.
The article highlights some interesting blogs that focus on sharing stories about people and community through digital storytelling. I’m having trouble tracking down a paper version here in Ottawa (although a friend living in France has procured one for me that I’ll be able to get when I see her in August!), but I think the piece I’m included in is an accompaniment to this fascinating article about a mysteriously anonymous writer who calls his/her self the Gentle Author and blogs the life stories of people living in London’s East End. It’s a fascinating read.
My favourite quote from the Gentle Author:
“Without me wanting to sound like a sentimentalist, I write about the things that delight me,” s/he says. “It’s given me a beautiful life.”
from kate bingaman burt’s creative mornings talk in portland | via creativemornings
In very exciting news, I found out today (well, actually I found out last week, but it was officially announced today) that I’ve received the November Awesome Ottawa grant from the Awesome Foundation for Hello Ottawa!
The Awesome Ottawa Foundation consists of a group of 10 trustees from a variety of sectors who donate some of their own money each month to fund a local project. It’s a really great model.
I applied for the grant to help out with transcription services for Hello Ottawa, since transcribing interviews takes up a large amount of my time and is the main reason the waiting list to participate is so long. Huge, huge thanks to Awesome Ottawa for making me their November Fellow.
This is something I’ve been working hard on over the past few weeks: the DOT Innovation Fest, the third in a series of creativity festivals I’ve created to engage DOT’s massive online community of youth, and show off the totally amazing innovative/creative/economic/educational/social capacity that DOT’s programs help to develop (the other two festivals were the DOT Film Fest and the DOT Writing Fest).
This festival is a little different, though: it’s collaborative! We’re asking people from around the world to contribute their unique expertise and suggestions to the discussions about each innovation. If you have a few spare minutes and an interest in how youth from developing economies are contributing to social innovation, please do check it out.
“I am From” is a collective video poem which reveals the personal story behind the labels imposed on us by zip codes and ward numbers. Six young people from Anacostia explore the layers of their identity through powerful prose and visual metaphor.
I was interviewed about Hello Ottawa on the CBC’s Ottawa Morning radio show: click through to listen!
I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous for anything! Halle Cottenham was lovely, though, and I think it went okay. (Yeah: I will kick myself forever for the sell flub. I swear it was just that my brain couldn’t decide whether to say share or tell.)
I was really touched by how kind the other people in the waiting area were. Right before I went on, a man representing the local school board went in to talk about the provincial elections, and right after was the founder of One Change, who was there to talk about a water conservation campaign. They were both quick with encouraging words, which I really appreciated.
Paul Mutant’s “This Painting is Not Available in Your Country” is his way of voicing his opinion on the incoherent absurdity of territorial rights enforcement in the age of the Internet.
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
Ira GlassHello Ottawa placed first in the Placeblog category at the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards. I’m really, really excited about this! This project has been overwhelming at times and requires a lot of energy; I know I shouldn’t worry very much about what other people think, but stuff like this feels really good. Happy new year, and thank you.
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