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Embracing Your Fearlessness at Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference

Care2

But in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, and where our activists and donors expect us to be transparent, responsive, and tech savvy, nonprofit leaders must work through their fears and change the way they do business inside the organization and externally, if they are going to exist in the next 10 years. The Nonprofit 2.0

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. You like numbers?

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Notes from SOCAP09: Thoughts on Micro-Donations, Crowd-Sourcing, Radical Collaborations, and Mobile Tech

Tech Soup

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). I found a few tech sessions that were relevant to the purposes of TechSoup, and as is always the case, I collected the business cards of some intelligent people doing good work.

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Net2Local: Year-End Revelations

Tech Soup

Net2Local has been busy over the last six months. Our volunteer network has accomplished the following: 232 events. These volunteers have been very successful in expanding the amount of support we can offer our organizers. There will be gossip, numbers and a few bad jokes along the way to keep you from getting drowsy.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. Searls also wrote The Cluetrain Manifesto , a business book about the impact of the Internet on commercial marketplaces and organizations. In the case of nonprofits, that would be donors or perhaps even volunteers.

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

Forum One

In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Voices from the Community: Accessibility

Tech Soup

Beyond (or perhaps more properly, before) the nuts-and-bolts business of making accessible technology and making technology accessible, comes the foundation of embracing why it needs to be prioritized. There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Opening Hearts and Minds. and Ottowa. Tools for Free.