Still cleaning out my inbox from a couple weeks on the road (and a few hectic weeks in general!) and ran across these goodies...

The Social Entrepreneurship Summit that was held on Dec 3-4, 2007 at the Centre for Social Innovation and the MaRS Collaboration Centre has posted the event proceedings online. Sounds like they've received some good feedback on the event, and there's momentum to keep it moving forward.

I wasn't able to make the event personally -- had to bail at the last minute (sorry!) -- so it's great to be able to skim through the presentations and some of video and photos from the event.

They close off their event summary with these helpful pointers:

Several members involved in organizing the Summit met recently to highlight some opportunities for action coming out of the Summit. We would like to direct you to the following areas of interest:

• Led by Causeway and the Tides Canada Foundation, Social Finance is receiving unprecedented interest in this country. Proceedings from the Social Finance Forum held October 15, 2007 at the MaRS Collaboration Centre can be found at: http://www.tidescanada.org/cms/page2655.cfm.

• The Centre for Social Innovation, in partnership with 9 funding partners, launched the Enterprising Nonprofits Program (ENP) pilot project in Toronto on February 29th. Information about this program can be found at http://www.socialinnovation.ca/enp.

• Social Venture Partners is holding an event for social entrepreneurs at the Kingsbridge Centre north of Toronto in April 17-20th, 2008 http://www.renewalpartners.com/svitoronto.html

• A BC Social Enterprise Conference is also being planned. Keep your eyes peeled to http://www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/calendar/

Next up... the announcement for Copy Camp 2. The fearless team is back "after a long Winter watching the polar cap melt, and waiting for Copyright Reform." And have announced the date of April 29 and 30 for the next event in Toronto.

The talented Patrick Dinnen will take my spot on this year's CopyCamp organizing team.

The announcement continues:

The CopyCamp Team has been reviewing the input we had from you during and after CopyCamp in September 2006. We're making some changes, but sticking to the unconference mode, and expanding the role of the wiki.

We are open to new ideas, and looking forward to your contribution as participants and volunteers.

Meanwhile, we have put together a digest of the debates we had at CopyCamp. (Summary in French pending.) You can see it on the web site at http://copycamp.ca/copycamp-2006-digest-0.

Stay tuned and be involved. More news soon!

The CopyCamp Team, http://www.copycamp.ca/

Enjoy!

Wow -- I was super-stoked to open-up my newsreader this morning to find GreenCamp listed on Upcoming. Last spring David Crow and I bantered about the opportunity for social-mission organizations to use the "unconference" format as a way to facilitate new conversations around progressive ideas. It's incredible to actually see this happening -- And right here in Toronto too! Think I'll be making it out to that event for sure.

GreenCamp isn't the only progressive unconference around. There's a whole new movement afoot, including Chris Messina's WineCamp, New Organizing Institute's RootsCamp, and the Media Consortium's recent ConsortTechCamp. Though not an official "Camp"-style unconference, I like to think of Web of Change as a progressive unconference, and I hope that Misha's summary of lessons from the recent CopyCamp added to the mix of ideas on how to use the unconference model for change.

Know of other progressive unconferences? Pop 'em in the comments! :-)

Well, as a somewhat half-baked attempt to get something more recent into the "Announcements" section of this blog, I'm going to give provide a run-down of the last couple months here at Community Bandwidth, and then present a snapshot of what's to come in 2007.

September and October were back-to-back excitement and travel, as I managed to squeeze in five major events into a two week period, including An Event Apart in Seattle, then up to Hollyhock to help convene the annual Web of Change gathering. While there, I had the opportunity to host an incredible conversation on the realities of being a progressive online publisher (which I recorded for your listening pleasure). Next up was a powerful gathering of some of Canada's most innovative independent online media organizations -- including The Tyee and rabble.ca -- to discuss the possibility of building a "media consortium" similar to the one that's formed in the U.S. Last but not least, a short session on non-profit collaboration for the Sustainability Network and then head-first into three-days of Canada's most important copyright and creativity event to date. Can you say intense!? Phew.

Okay, so what's on deck for 2007? Well, after some serious thought about my ability to actually meet these commitments, here goes:

• Brown Bag IT: Finally, I'm going to launch the free lunch-and-learn sessions on non-profit technology issues that I've been planning to do for the last year now. Sign-up for e-mail updates to get the first announcement.
• Speaking of e-mail announcements: have you noticed that you haven't received any lately? Yah, well, that's going to change too.
• Technology advice for Canadian non-profits: Tired of all the great advice for services that you can't sign-up for? Or about problems that you're not facing? Welcome to the reality of living north of a sector ten times larger that ours. So, just for Canadians: a series of articles on ground-level technology issues that are based on research of Canadian organizations.

What else might you see in 2007? More convening of important conversation, more resources that you can put to use right away, more fun-filled blog posts (and more regularly too) and -- of course -- less talk more rock. You heard it here first!