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• 3rd Vancouver Timeraiser – Tickets on Sale Now! Get in on this!

  Date: 2010.09.01 | Category: In the News, Timeraiser | Response: 0

  Not to suggest that it’s coming to an end, but the summer’s been a good one!  So let’s not say goodbye to summer just yet (I personally have a few more beach BBQs planned and swims at 2nd Beach!), but perhaps let’s focus on the things that will ease Brand viagra the transition from summer to fall.  I’m biased, but fall means one exciting thing in particular to me: the V ancouver Timer Levitra contraindicaciones a iser Purchase viagra online is just around the corner! Levitra pas cher Online levitra Levitra achat

  For a third year in a row, the Timeraiser is back in this fantastic city and ready to raise over 5,000 hours for local groups while auctioning off 25 pieces of artwork from talented emerging artists. Viagra levitra  Take a peak at this year’s selection of artwork by perusing our online gallery, and check out the great organizations you’ ll be able to chat with and learn about. Over the counter viagra Cheap viagra online

  There are a few fun additions to this year’s Timeraiser that will make attending the event that much more exciting:

  1) The WestJet Social Media Contest: When you attend this year’s Vancouver Timeraiser, you could have a chance to win a pair of tickets on any regularly scheduled WestJet flight! Levitra prix pharmacie  Yup, that’s 2 tickets anywhere WestJet flies. Kaufen viagra  It’s as simple as attending the event and either tweeting from you smartphone or, if you don’t use twitter, submitting a post at our Civic Footprint kiosk. Viagra sin receta Viagra bestellung  The idea is to inspire us with 140 characters, and your post must contain #TRWJ or #Timeraiser.  Much thanks to @WestJet for their support. Viagra sale Kauf von viagra Pastillas levitra (See full rules and regulation on our Facebook page).

  2) The WIND Mobile Giveaway: We’ve partnered with WIND Mobile this year to offer one lucky Vancouver Timeraiser attendee a WIND Mobile prize pack: we’ll be giving away a BlackBerry Bold 9700® and 1 month Always Shout voice plan on the WIND network. Viagra for women Viagra alternatives  Thanks for your support @WINDMobile!

  So let’s take stock. Levitra pill  Here are all the things that you could do at the Timeraiser on September 23rd:

  1. Chat with a bunch of great local organizations and hopefully find some fun and meaningful volunteers opportunities
  2. Learn about some issues/organizations you didn’t know about before
  3. Take in awesome artwork
  4. Talk to some talented local artists
  5. Munch on snacks from Potluck Catering
  6. Meet tons of cool people
  7. Listen to great music and have a drink with friends
  8. Maybe walk away with a free flight or a new phone

  You’re going to want to get in on this – what better way to avoid the winter rainy blues than with an exciting new volunteer opportunity Prospecto levitra ?

  Get tickets and additional information at www.timeraiser.ca – last year we sold out, so get tickets for you and your friends today (and maybe ask your employer to pick up the cost of the ticket -it’s an easy way for them to support their employees’ volunteerism!).

  3rd Vancouver Timeraiser

  Thursday September 23rd

  Doors open at 7pm

  Roundhouse Community Centre, Yaletown

• Learning From Ideas

  Date: 2010.02.12 | Category: Civic Footprint, In the News | Response: 0

  I’ve been watching a lot of TED talks lately.

  
  

  For those who are unfamiliar with it, TED, or Technology Entertainment Design, is a non-profit organization that spreads good ideas through conferences, their video site and the annual TED prize, given to individuals with “One Wish to Change the World.” The TED talks, featured on the site, are given by individuals ranging from entertainers to artists to scientists to professionals and to anybody else with a creative idea.

  
  

  Two talks with very different approaches have stuck out in my mind: Bill Davenhall’s Your Health Depends on Where You Live and Ze Frank’s Nerdcore Comedy. Davenhall, the head of health & human services marketing at ESRI, talks about the novel field of ‘geomedicine’ and its nonexistence in health care services. Viagra sale Purchase viagra Using GIS to map heart attack rates and toxic release sites in the United States, Davenhall’s map allows users to track their place history (places they have lived) in the United St ates to get Levitra prix pharmacie a grip on the effect their environment has had on them. Kaufen viagra Cheap viagra online You can look at it as a grim picture, or as a move toward a more comprehensive health care approach that takes ‘geomedicine’ into account.

  
  

  The second talk, given by internet personality, entertainer and public speaker Ze Frank, is a light-hearted talk about tech joys and the numerous ‘ web Brand viagra toys’ Frank has created to increase the amount of social capital on the web. His creations have inspired people to come together and create (anything) themselves and in collaboration with other each otherAs such he’s been featured in numerous media and is currently working with Time Magazine. Viagra for women Viagra alternatives

  
  

  At Timeraiser, we’ve been talking a lot about open data/architecture and how to harness and display Levitra contraindicaciones it using web-based interactive mapping. Viagra levitra Over the counter viagra Viagra bestellung I think these two talks hold a lot of lessons for this type of work. Levitra pas cher Online levitra Purchase viagra online Davenhall’s US health example puts the power of interactive web mapping on display. Simply type in one or more locations and investigate your past Levitra pill and present local environments. Kauf von viagra Frank’s talk highlights the benefits interactivity has for creative and innovative thought, and for increasing a community’s – a civic environment’s – social capital.

  Over the past couple of months I’ve been mapping various non-profit organizations using open data. Viagra sin receta Levitra achat This week I’ll be sitting down with Emily to discuss how we can bring these into the public sphere in an interactive and creative way. Hopefully we can maximize the amount of information available in a user’ s environment while providing a platform for the creation of capital. Prospecto levitra Pastillas levitra

• Open Source vs Open Architecture

  Date: 2009.12.03 | Category: In the News, Technology | Response: 0

  

  There is a lot of debate in the technology space about what the best solutions are for nonprofit and charitable organizations. Viagra for women Viagra sale Purchase viagra The power of volunteers contributing to the Linux, SugarCRM or Mozilla open-source community are clear examples of great, low cost tools available to broad public, providing high value to its user base. Levitra prix pharmacie In many ways, the values in the open-source community are 100% aligned with ours.

  However, in our office we make technology decisions based on how well technologies can talk to one another. This is our first and foremost consideration. Viagra bestellung We consider integration across all  office productivity needs and relationship/program management requirements.

  The second consideration made when adopting a new tool is how easy is it for our team to make changes as we fine tune our programming. Levitra pas cher We don’t want to code ourselves into a box.

  Other considerations include cost (comparing off-the-shelf products versus web-based services), and how much external consulting resources are needed for specific or custom configurations.

  These consideration points are critical because want to support hundreds more local artists. Thousands more Charities. Kauf von viagra Tens of thousands new citizens who want to be engaged. Purchase viagra online Levitra contraindicaciones

  To accomplish this, our small team must select technology tools that best enable our people to connect with our content. Levitra achat We are calling it an Open Architecture approach. Viagra alternatives If our email isn’t connected to our CRM – it’s no good. Online levitra Pastillas levitra If our CRM isn’t connected to our FTP file sharing system, no good. If our FTP doesn’t allow easy access to new users, no good. We need these tools to be deeply integrated and accessible. Viagra sin receta

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  There is much more to come in the discussion of Open Architecture, and exciting new projects ahead.

• Urban Studies and Open Data

  Date: 2009.11.30 | Category: In the News, Technology | Response: 1

  

  Our newest addition to the team- Mike Dror

  A few weeks ago Anil mentioned that if a picture can tell a thousand words, an interactive map can tell a million. Viagra sale Levitra achat Not bad. I think I’m in the right field of study. Levitra contraindicaciones Over the counter viagra Cheap viagra online

  My name is Mike Dror and I’m an Urban Studies student at the University of Toronto. Levitra pill I’ve been interning at Framework for the past few months as part of a seminar titled Urban Experiential Learning, where each student is placed at one of various urban organizations that range from small, non-profit organizations such as Framework, to larger public service institutions such as a Toronto City Councilor’s office.

  The major part of my internship involves a long term project whose goal is to build on aspects of the Civic Footprint programming through the use of interactive mapping. A few weeks ago this project received a huge boon as the City of Toronto (finally) launched its open data set catalogue, following Vancouver’s example. The catalogue includes previously-unavailable data that can be used within Geographic Information Systems for analysis and display.

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