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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. They enlisted help from board members on Twitter, but being organized with a plan and timeline for asks was critical to their success. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation.

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Getting Around Internet Censorship: VPN

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The government blocks certain sites, including access to any group organizing features on social sites (shared photo pools for example), skype out, and tools like VPNs that can help you get around government censors. Eventually, I was able to install a VPN and get to the sites I wanted to use. The block did not last long.

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4Change Chat: Revolutionary social media - social tools for revolts, protests

Amy Sample Ward

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). From new forms of political campaigning in the United States, experiments in e-government and civic participation in England, from the fight against internet censorship in Australia and New Zealand and from start-ups in Canada and France. Twitter, I believe, provides us with such a platform.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

Forum One

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. city issues and indicators.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). National LGBTQ Task Force / Washington, DC / 475. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2018 Creating Change Conference convenes in Washington, DC, January 24-28, 2018. The Corps Network / Washington, DC / $875.

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Conference to Inspire and Mobilize Thousands of Volunteers

Care2

Next week, the Care2 Team will join more than 5,000 passionate volunteers in Washington, D.C. For a few days in June, thousands of people will come to Washington, D.C. for the Points of Light National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The conference takes place Wednesday, June 19 through Saturday June 22. We''ll see you there!

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Hope you will too.

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