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After months of preparation and anticipation, the first Social Tech Training — an innovative collaboration between Web of Change and MaRS — has come and gone. Read on for some thoughts about the event, and see as well Jason's post about bigger themes that emerged, if you're curious.

We're very excited to announce that we've confirmed Ricken Patel as our keynote speaker for the Social Tech Training. Ricken is the co-founder of Avaaz – the world's largest global online advocacy organization.

I spotted this over at WorldChanging a couple days ago – an interesting article by Ethan Zuckerman, based on a presentation he recently gave at ETech. It's long, but this first part summed up the phenomenon of user-generated content, and why it matters, nicely. This is an evo/revolution of the web that no one is denying anymore.

Lead by Eric Squair and Cristen Perks

See the attached file for photos of the flipcharts from Rob Purdie's session on Values Based Project Management. 

We have to step back to look at what gets people engaged and what starts them down this path. The internet is now our tool to find people but that is tapping into the stuff we all mentioned only on a cursory level. Most of what gets people involved is a major inter- personal interaction. How do we come as close as possible to get people to face to face.