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JUNE 20, 2011

On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#. San Francisco.

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APRIL 3, 2012

I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week and hope to share some brief nuggets. The conference got off to an exciting start this morning in a very unique way. Flickr Photo by The Inadvertent Gardener.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

A San Francisco startup, called Valued has a mission is to provide companies with the AI-driven tools they need to stop inappropriate behavior, bias, bullying, and discrimination in the workplace. These are just a few of many examples of using technology to facilitate staff relationships and encourage workplace wellbeing.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A San Francisco startup, called Valued just received $1.7 These insights can be used to solve social change problems. As you can imagine, AI is impacting everything in the social sector. Here are some recent examples: Can AI Help Combat Workplace Harassment? million in seed capital.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Do I want to give my friends the ability to share my location with others? These questions (and others) prompted a discussion about privacy concerns.

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JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, “ The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. The participants represented a wide range including activists, funders, and nonprofits.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In December, I’ll be covering the Lean Start Up Conference in San Francisco and in January I’ll be a judge and attend the Lean Impact Summit in SF. … Read More Lean Impact'

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

If you are not in NYC, but want to join us for a book talk in Washington, DC or San Francisco this month, here’s the events listing for October and more in the works for November and 2013. Please let me know if you when you get your copy by sharing a photo of yourself with the book!

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

The last time I saw him was in 2009 in San Francisco at the NTC. I just learned that Rob passed away , leaving behind a wife and two daughters. Rob Stuart shared my birthday, Jan. But we also shared more than that – the nonprofit technology field. Rob was the godfather.

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MAY 28, 2014

James Nickerson , Social Media Strategist, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Finally, James Nickerson shared an amazing story of learning from failure from the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, kicking it off with some Barry Manilow poety. fitz350 #SMoP14 — Cynthia Shaw (@cynshaw) May 22, 2014.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

There’s this convergence with a new generation of entrepreneurship and a new generation of social consciousness,” she said at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. She said that start ups have a unique opportunity and approach to philanthropy given its entrepreneurial mindset. Social good has to be part of the business model.”

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JUNE 14, 2013

She lives in San Francisco with her husband who spends way less time with social media than she does. And let me know if you have any questions for me; I’ll answer them below! Taryn Degnan is the Manager of Social Media and Online Community at Common Sense Media. Contact Taryn or follow her on Twitter. Crowdsourcing'

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Anthony Brown who does social media for the Zoo here in San Francisco let me know this morning that such a bench learning list exists. He is using a Google Spreadsheet to collect the data, although it is possible to leverage APIs.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

San Francisco and Silicon Valley Events – Week of October 15th. The book tour for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit continues in NYC with events on October 11 and October 12th and there are a few spots available for October 11th 6 PM NYC TechClub Event. If you are in the bay area, please join us!

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AUGUST 11, 2009

New research funded by the Columbus Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation demonstrates that High dollar donors — especially 30-49 year-olds — use the social web, but have yet to be engaged by strong, trustworthy philanthropic organizations.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Jim Joseph Foundation focuses on the Jewish education of youth and young adults based in San Francisco. Adene Sacks. Adene Sacks is a Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation. Adene represents the foundation’s learning about networks, organizational growth strategies and peer learning.

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MAY 7, 2010

The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. And, one of the Twitter users who participated was a friend from high school!

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MARCH 16, 2012

I know that I have been tremendously influenced by what I have learned in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Atlanta, and now Seattle. If we hadn’t been sitting next to one another, I never would have learned this. How many other inspirations like this have started at GEO conferences? What would it look like if we mapped this web?

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MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The participants represent a diverse cohort of 41 women’s rights and social justice leaders from 18 organizations from 11 states across the country.

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JULY 23, 2014

NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's taking place this year in San Francisco from April 26-28th. The list of organizations and projects is here : This year will send two groups of nonprofit techies to install a wireless network donated by Cisco at different locations in San Francisco. Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell.

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MARCH 3, 2015

For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco. If you recall, Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco made a wish come true for Miles Scott, a young boy with Leukemia. The chapter gives examples of recognition, validation, and empathy create an attention trigger.

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MAY 27, 2010

Use the “ Find People &# and type in the organization’s name or use advanced search with keywords. You might get lucky and discover an organization in your field that has set up a Twitter list of fellow nonprofits. For example, the San Francisco Symphony has a list of orchestras. (2)

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MARCH 19, 2009

He now needs to raise a little cash to get himself from Brisbane to San Francisco for the conference. Can you help Eddie get to San Francisco for the NTC Conference in April? That's why we made the above video. He was lucky enough to receive a scholarship to the Nonprofit Technology Conference from NTEN.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

My name is Jared Paul and I’m the founder of a one and a half year old, San Francisco nonprofit called A Good Idea (AGI) that recently made the top 100 in the Chase Community Giving contest. Does these contests really help build capacity of nonprofits and bring innovative solutions for social to the forefront or not? What do you think?

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Share an example of your experiment in the comments.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake. This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Scott Bechtler-Levin, President, IdeaEncore Network.

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JUNE 16, 2010

San Francisco Book Party. Here are a few upcoming book launch events over the next two weeks: June 17, 2010. 2 PM EST. Free Webinar with Care2. Details here. June 21, 2010. 1-2 PM/PST. 4-5 PM/EST. Virtual Book Launch. Details here. June 22, 2010. 12-2 PM PST. Hosted by NetSquared. Brown Bag Lunch. Details here. June 25, 2010.

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MAY 26, 2009

Operation Smile has partnered with TWTRCON and Common Knowledge, the first Twitter for business conference to be held in San Francisco on May 31st to kick off this campaign. The 140 Smiles launch party will be held Saturday, May 30th at famed San Francisco restaurant Le Colonial and will be streamed live by Twooting.com.

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JULY 31, 2015

We also walked the talk, taking folks out on a walk around the San Francisco neighborhood. When we came back, Allison and I raffled off some FitBits asking folks to write down how they planned to incorporate walking into their work life. ” I documented resources, photos, and tweets from meet up here.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. If you want to attend the "real life" event in San Francisco, you better hurry and RSVP , space is limited and there are only a few spots left.

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MARCH 31, 2014

The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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APRIL 4, 2011

I’m looking forward to spending some face-to-face time with the group when we meet on April 5th and 6th in San Francisco. In late 2011, Funder’s Guide to Networks will synthesize the knowledge and publish a print publication for the broader field of philanthropy.

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