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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Chris Worman, senior director of alliances and community engagement at TechSoup, founded TechSoup Romania and was heavily involved in ReStart Romania and TechSoup's other open community challenges. Video : TechSoup Romania. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving. Image 1 : Things Istanbul / CC BY-NC-SA.

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Personal Democracy Forum 2012 Discount for TechSoup Community

Tech Soup

The conference includes sessions for everyone from novice organizers to tech-loving early adopters: you can get the basics on using the Internet and other technologies to better serve your community or dig into the latest technology trends. The theme of this year’s PDF conference is The Internet’s New Political Power.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system. TechSoup hosted its first ever Nonprofits Live. on the Future of Fundraising back in 2011.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. "It wasn't by accident that we were approached as a partner for this project," says Alicja Peszkowska, communications specialist at TechSoup Europe. spanhidden.

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NCVO and TAG Conference Presentations and Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The week before I went from Boston to Miami to Romania and flew back to Boston via Miami to present at the TAG Conference. Gavin Clabaugh was the moderator and Marc Osten who presented about the cultural change issues to adopt social networking. adoption in businesses and large nonprofits. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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