The new date for Essential Digital Tools – Day 4 is Thursday, November 5, 2020 (1pm-4:30pm EST).
The new schedule is:
Day 2 – Friday, October 23, 2020 | 1pm-4:30pm EST
Day 3 – Friday, October 30, 2020 | 1pm-4:30pm EST
Day 4 – Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 1pm-4:30pm EST
Please note: If you registered for a workshop your registration was transferred automatically to the new date (e.g. you registered for Day 4 on Oct. 30 then you are now automatically registered for Day 4 on Nov. 5); if you need to change your registration please email us at info@cpamo.org
Producer Jessa Agilo (Founder, ArtsPond) provides a whirlwind but fun and informative introduction to the essential digital tools and software in her front and back pockets for managing time, money, people, building creative programming, and engaging community. Learn from her 30 years of experience combining free, open source, and low-cost tools and applications to manage small to large teams from home on a tight budget.
DAY 2 – Friday, October 23, 2020
Compare the benefits and challenges of popular design and communications suites like Adobe with open source, free/low-cost alternatives to amplify your public outreach, accessibility, and interactivity on-the-ground and in-the-cloud. Explore CPanel and WordPress website hosting for non-developers without breaking your brain or emptying the bank. Look at free and open source constituency relationship management (CRM) options with CiviCRM, SuiteCRM, and MailChimp, livestreaming to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and other services with OBS Studio and YellowDuck, accessibility services with Otter.ai and other alternatives, research support with Zotero, strategies for sharing remote desktops, cloud and onsite digital asset backups, best practices for Zoom video conferencing and other alternatives.
DAY 3 – Friday, October 30, 2020
Become a power Quickbooks and spreadsheet user for managing people, time, and money. See examples and learn how to build all the tools that you need. Explore how just a few spreadsheet features (filters, pivot tables, mail merges) and functions (VLOOKUP, SUMIF, IFS and more) can boost efficiency and automation of everyday business activities. Gain access to sample financial, HR, and activity reporting templates from ArtsPond’s office and learn how to build them on your own. Ask questions about financial and project management challenges and received thoughts or recommendations on how to improve or do things differently.
DAY 4 – Thursday, November 5, 2020
A hand’s on workshop for non-developers to learn how to install and powerup a multi-user Office365 environment and a new WordPress website on a custom domain with CPanel hosting (or hosted by WordPress). For Office365, setup and use SharePoint, Teams, Planner, Yammer, OneNote, OneDrive, and more. On WordPress, learn how to install themes, create and update content, address site SEO settings, backup and keep it secure, migrate content to another location, set up a testing server on your local machine for play before launch, choosing between the best of free and paid plugins to extend functionality, examining options for hosting ecommerce or social networking functionality, setting up multiple user accounts with permissions, syncing up content and contact lists with Mailchimp and social media. Explore SSL certificates, hosting other open source software solutions to extend functionalities, and choose a hosting plan that works for you for the future.
For this workshop, if you do not already have access, participants from nonprofit organizations in Canada are encouraged to request accounts for Microsoft Office365 E2 for Nonprofits from TechSoup Canada. The approval process can take 10 days. For those that are unable to do so, a temporary account will be provided to participants by ArtsPond for 90 days to explore the platform.
Register on Eventbrite: https://digital-tools.eventbrite.ca
Bänoo Zan is a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, with more than 200published poems and poetry-related pieces as well as three books. Song of Phoenix: Life and Works of Sylvia Plath, was reprinted in Iran in 2010. Songs of Exile, her first poetry collection, was released in 2016 in Canada by Guernica Editions. It was shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award by the League of Canadian Poets in 2017. Letters to My Father, her second poetry book, was published in 2017 by Piquant Press in Canada. She is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Toronto’s most diverse poetry reading and open mic series (inception: 2012). It is a brave space that bridges the gap between communities of poets from different ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, poetic styles, voices and visions.
Anthony Bansfield, aka the nth digri, is a spoken word poet inspired by the African griot tradition and his Caribbean-Canadian heritage. He has performed in Canada, the US, the Caribbean and Africa, and has published numerous print and audio-visual productions of his work. He is National Coordinator of the Northern Griots Network, and currently producing a virtual celebration of Black Canadian spoken word poetry called ‘WordLife20.’
Charlie C Petch is an award winning playwright, spoken word artist, haiku deathmaster, host and musical saw player. They have an upcoming poetry book with Brick Books in Fall 2021, a libretto “Medusa’s Children” launching with Opera Q, and their multimedia play “Daughter of Geppetto” is forthcoming with Wind In The Leaves. Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for Spoken Word Canada, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets, is a Youth Mentor with TDSB Creates and is the founder of Hot Damn it’s a Queer Slam. 
Jessica Kirk is a cultural curator and researcher based in Toronto, whose creative practice is rooted in racial justice and community care. Jessica is the current Membership, Equity, and Engagement Coordinator for The Writers’ Union of Canada where she initiated BIPOC Writers Connect, a literary mentorship program for emerging Black, Indigenous and racialized writers. She co-founded multidisciplinary collective Way Past Kennedy Road and is the co-founder of Black Graduation at the University of Toronto. Jessica also holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where she submitted her thesis entitled Mapping Livable Geographies: Black Radical Praxis within and beyond Toronto. Jessica’s writing also appears in The Canadian Geographer, Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities, and This Magazine. 
Gavin Barrett’s new poetry collection Understan (Mawenzi House, 2020) is a CBC Books recommendation. Born in Bombay, he lived in Hong Kong before immigrating to Canada. His poetry has been anthologized and published in reputed literary journals and he co-curates the Tartan Turban Secret Readings which centres BIPOC writers. He sits on the Canadian Authors Association—Toronto Branch Advisory Board and is an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets.
Lesley Fletcher is the Executive Director of the League of Canadian poets. Lesley has worked throughout the publishing industry as a community organizer, editor, bookseller, social media manager, and program coordinator. She also acts as a freelance writer (with a variety of pennames) and her work has been published on websites around the world. She cannot resist a bookstore, a library, a dog, or a new houseplant.
Dane Swan is a Bermuda-born, Toronto-based spoken word artist, former slam poet, musician, author, and emerging editor. A former remedial English student, he is now an author of both fiction and poetry. Dane’s second poetry collection, A Mingus Lullaby, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2017.
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