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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Listening Tools

Care2

Or at least they want to figure out what the right tools are. Beth Kanter’s final session of the day “Listening Tools&# drew a large crowd of curious attendees at the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference on Friday, June 25th. See the forest not the trees (skim, spend time reading through only the meatiest comments).

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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide

Forum One

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. I participated in two unconference sessions. I don’t often get a chance to listen and learn.

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Join Us for the SF Online Community Report MeetUp: Wednesday, June 24

Tech Soup

The Online Community Report MeetUp is back this month, fresh from the Online Community Unconference and ready to discuss online community tools and techniques. We'll have time for informal networking before and after so you have a chance to chat more with fellow online community enthusiasts.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 2 2010

NTEN

Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). It's a helpful compilation about online tools for. Unconference where Beth did some learning at, see the summary Allyson Kapin provides over on the Care2 Frogloop blog. Who's your Mayor? Wendy's Keynote. .

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10NTC: Open Data and Transparency: What's the Carrot?

Tech Soup

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. Tools Web Building. It was a fascinating discussion that touched both on many of the reasons why nonprofits are taking a look at data sharing and on why consequential data sharing can sometimes be challenging or unfeasible for nonprofits.

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