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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide

Forum One

Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the barrier to entry for all citizens in government decisions. 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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Impact and Interoperability: How Technology Powers Collaboration

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country. But what about those tools that weren’t?

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The 2014 NTEN Award: Jason Shim

NTEN

Jason also serves as an instructor in Digital Media Marketing at George Brown College, has held positions on several governing boards is also a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars. Before 13NTC, he teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking docs for the breakout sessions at the conference.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. One problem with NP's is that they took their governance structures from for-profit corporations and these are obviously not optimal for the type of work they do. Understand how to have influence via electronic participation and collaboration. So, I'm giving it away.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

How’s it going, doc? My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. If we did everything we wanted to do, had an unlimited amount of time, money and collaboration with other partners.

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

So I’m going to encourage you, unless you’re like a mighty team of one, and that might be true, form some loose affiliated cross-functional technology governance group. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. Workgroup, action group.