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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. To be a part of a larger nonprofit community/networking. They come to us looking for practical tips and a supportive community.

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Net2Local: Year-End Revelations

Tech Soup

Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. ” Community Highlights. Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. What did we do?

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Live from Transparency Camp '09 in DC

Forum One

There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions. Craig Newmark, "a customer service representative" and supporter of Sunlight, speaking at the outset.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits use them to rally supporters. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers.

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23 Top Virtual Fundraising Ideas

CauseVox

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. With the slowing down of things such as mail, this might be a good opportunity to push more of your supporters online to donate and a crowdfunding appeal can help do that.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area. We also saw some.