9th July 2011, 1.30pm
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Can humans live sustainably? Can creative thinking be nurtured? What ideas are worth nurturing and sustaining? Realpolitik and Bella Caledonia present ‘FED - Ideas Worth Sustaining', a one-day program of talks, discussions, and, most importantly, ideas. 

FED takes its cue from July’s TEDGlobal conference - but while TED costs an eye-watering £4,000 to attend, FED is a place of assembly genuinely open to all. Featuring presentations from creative thinkers and practitioners. Speakers include Gerry Hassan, Robin McAlpine, Lorna Waite and Kevan Shaw. There will also be an opportunity for the public to present ideas. 

Tuesday May 31st, 1pm
GCVS, The Albany Learning and Conference Centre
44 Ashley Street, Glasgow, G3 6DS

The Glasgow Third Sector Forum invites voluntary sector organisations, volunteering organisations and social enterprises to participate in an informative and engaging event that will;

• Outline the plans of the Glasgow Third Sector Forum for connecting the sector with information and resources

• Present the opportunities of engaging with cloud computing

• Discuss the pros and cons of using social media within the Third Sector to engage with existing clients and new customers - “Social media could boost the UK’s social enterprises by an average of  £212,000, according to research carried out by O2 and the RBS SE100 Index”.  Source - Social Enterprise Live

This event has been sponsored by the Glasgow Social Enterprise Partnership (GSEP) and is the first event to be organised by the Glasgow Third Sector Forum. 

The event is free of charge to Glasgow based Third Sector Organisations.   More information can be found in our flyer.

For more information and to book your place click here.
If you have any queries please contact CEiS Events on
0141 425 2923 or e-mail eventmanagement@ceis.org.uk

I'm presenting at the above event next week. I'll be doing a bit of social media myth-busting and, hopefully, attendees will create the world's quickest social media strategy.

To book a free place contact CEiS Events on 0141 425 2923 or e-mail eventmanagement@ceis.org.uk

Global Service Jam Scotland happens this weekend. You really should try and make it along to this event, hosted by the wonderful Snook. Here's some more info from Snook...

The Global Service Jam Scotland will be a high-energy, collaborative & freeform event, in which some of the brightest minds and lovely folk in Scotland (and even a few from further afield!) will get together to design new services in parallel with a whole host of jams across the world.

We're hoping to have a good mix of creatives, service designers and industry, public sector & service experts.

Location
The Lighthouse
Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
56 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow, G1 3LX

Date/Time
Fri 11 March 17:00 - 22:00
Sat 12 March 09:00 - 22:00
Sun 13 March 09:00 - 15:00

Itinerary
http://cargocollective.com/globalservicejamscotland#1116968/Itinerary

There's still time to SIGN UP! Its free!
http://cargocollective.com/globalservicejamscotland/#1116962/Contact-Sign-up

Who's Coming? industry professionals, designers, students
http://cargocollective.com/globalservicejamscotland#1117141/Participants

What to Bring
Laptops
Multi-sockets
Camera and/or Video camera
BYOBreakfast
Drinks & Snacks
Chunky markers
Post-its

Scotland Satellite Teams Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Forres, Anywhere!
If you can't make it to Glasgow why not set up or join a Satellite Team in your local area. We'll help you out with the organisation and will stay connected over Skype throughout the weekend.
Get in touch with sarah@wearesnook.com

Debate: Activism vs. Slacktivism

Does activism via digital channels work? It depends on who you ask. Join a debate of skeptics, realists and optimists exploring the impact of digital activism.

Overview

All activism depends on the belief and hope by participants that acting together will make a difference. With increasing debate and rhetoric around the influence and power of digital activism, what will the future be for this form of mobilisation if misinformed commentary or ill-conceived use of digital tools and networks attempt to undermine it?

The debate will challenge and provoke:

• campaigners who are not using online mobilisation strategically and the debate will challenge them to up their game
• skeptics of the power of digital activism and the debate will challenge them to learn how and when digital activism does work

Speakers

(See bottom of page for bios and position of speakers)

Chair: Kathryn Corrick - Digital Media Consultant

• Paul Hilder - Director of Campaigns, Oxfam
• David Babbs - Executive Director, 38 Degrees
• Naomi McAuliffe - Campaign Manager, Amnesty International
• Tom Steinberg - Director, MySociety.org
• Sam Smith - Democracy & Transparency activist
• Eric Lee - Founding Editor of LabourStart.org
• Micah White - Adbusters & Guardian contributor (Via recorded video presentation)
• Other to be confirmed

Format

1. Each articulates their points in a 5-10 minute presentation (TED-style)
2. Opportunity to respond to others' points for 20 minutes
3. Audience question, answer, comment and debate

Online

We aim to stream the event live, allow questions from online audience as well as recording it for later viewing online.

...watch this space.