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14LCS Idea Accelerator: Transforming Technology into Social Change

NTEN

On September 6 in San Francisco, over 200 attendees at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit (14LCS) convened for its finale event: the Idea Accelerator. The goal was to surface ideas to create real, world-changing impact that make people’s lives better. “We Supported by teammates Zenzel Lewis, CSRA EOA Inc.

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Happy Blog Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm sharing five "new to me" blogs that I discovered this year. Thirteen Peny Picayne - Is the personal blog of Andy Fluke from NCDD who I met last month and has the chance to live blog the NCDD gathering in San Francisco earlier this month. A Fine Blog - Allison Fine's blog. I love Lucy!

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Finding a Community of Nonprofit Technology Experts

Tech Soup

Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Our **San Francisco** group curates a list of [tech for good experiences each month]([link] --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. She also stated that while San Francisco is a highly educated region overall, two thirds of the city's highly educated residents are from outside of California.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. If you’re reading this blog, it’s probably because you’re a huge fan of social media and believe that it empowers all of us to connect, create, explore, and understand our world. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). The project will continue through the spring and into early summer. This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I

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