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Shameless Ask, Looking for SXSW 2012 Nonprofit Votes!

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SXSW 2012 session voting is nearing the end. If you’re not familiar with the process The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event. Come ready to interact, discuss, and figure out how to convert your supporters into active change agents for good. –> Vote Now !

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Join Us: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book Events in Washington, DC

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. October 23, 2012 at 10 am PST/1:00 PM EST. Workshop: Washington, DC Foundation Center. October 24, 2012 10-12 Noon. Connie Chan Wang (@cheesycons) October 19, 2012.

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What are Effective Strategies Nonprofit Organizations Use to Improve Diversity and Inclusion?

ASU Lodestar Center

The 2012 State of the Work Report shows that “people of color make up 37 percent of program offices at foundations…21 percent of U.S. managerial/professional workforce, but only 10-17 percent of CEO and board leadership at foundations” (Ryan, 2012, p. New Mexico State University. However, what does inclusion look like?

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Kindle Version, SF Events, and Dogs Who Love the Book!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

stephen blyth (@sablyth) October 9, 2012. October 17 from 4-6 pm, Book Party and Discussion – hosted by ZeroDivide, Northern California Grantmakers, and the Levi Strauss Foundation. October 18 from 5-7 pm, Stanford University PACS - Book Discussion with the authors moderated by Lucy Bernholz. measure-networ… DM me.

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[Reflection] Mashable #sgsGLOBAL: How Do We Get From Collective Conversation To Action To Impact?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Al Gore (@algore) September 23, 2012. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To most patrons, HDL merely delivers titles and page numbers as results, but the University of Michigan’s Library, one of the HathiTrust members, does allow access to the full text of copyrighted works for people with qualifying print disabilities. The Court of Appeals explicitly included image accessibility in its ruling.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.