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Embracing Your Fearlessness at Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference

Care2

Nonprofits fear change. And admittedly change can be scary and difficult especially for senior leadership who has a lot at stake while trying to meet their mission and raise money. Unconference on June 15 th at SEIU's headquarters in Washington, DC from 8:30AM to 4:00PM. There will be no powerpoints. The Nonprofit 2.0

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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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For my mom on Ada Lovelace Day

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it was changing computers, cameras, cd players, or anything else, she was there with an attitude of, “let’s make this work!&# In school, and still to this day, when I think I’ve been stumped by the very tool I’m using I think of her, and think that she wouldn’t accept losing like that!

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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Tips to Humanize Your Social Media

Care2

Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked. How uninspiring for a sector filled with passionate people who are trying to change the world and make it a better place to live.

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The Social Web is Not Flat

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media.

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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.