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Call for Presenters: Conference on Volunteering and Service

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Note from Beth: Whether you are planning to present at a conference or deliver a one-day workshop, the secret to success is in good design. Recently, Points of Light offered an instructional webinar on how to design a conference session. Lori Jean Mantooth offers a summary. We’ve all been there.

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

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I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. We got 100 comments 5 minutes from nonprofit and other professionals sharing why they thought it was valuable. Board source.

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

with government agencies, emergency management professionals, disaster response organizations, tech companies and concerned citizens. . This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). Hope you will too.

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The Upcoming E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference in South Africa

Tech Soup

The intention of the event is to join industry and government in putting into action some of the principles developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya. Image: Beanhammer (Flickr Creative Commons). GreenTech mobile phone recycling refurbishment Africa computers electronics reuse'

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Fulton’s talk was timely.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. Interview Experts.

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Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 - Part Two

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As I noted in the previous post, it's a major part of UK and Scottish government strategy to invest in and expand the social enterprise sector. In the opening session of the conference itself, we heard from representatives of both the UK and Scottish governments. I hope you come away from the conference with deals.

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