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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

Yesterday, I had a very fun time presenting with my friend and colleague Debra Askanase at the 2 011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Here are the slides! But both the community and your organization want to see certain laws passed, things improved, programs created or groups supported. Transparency.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

This’ll be a fun one. . And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. Now, onto the next slide.

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How to: 5 Steps for hosting a successful online event

Forum One

There are lots of great social media tools that can enhance an in-person event: an event site, online chat / messaging, video, photos and slideshows, slide-sharing applications, podcasts, discussion boards, wikis, blogs, online interviews, Twitter, etc. Murphy's Law: technology will inherently fail you when you least expect it.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . And I’ll let you bring up your beautiful slides, and the floor is yours, gentlemen, so take it away. . Also, a little shout out to our colleague Kevin Wilson who’s managing the slides for us at Harvey’s office. So good news.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. Can you go back to that slide? I’m going to pipe down.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photos of the slides. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. So for teaching robotics, he starts with an actual object.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

It's not fun for some people. Another one that I wanted to do would be, and that I'm actually looking into, is it's California law that if you lay off 50 people or more in the next six months you have to announce that and make that public. And in some ways, part of the fun of doing Spot.us Yes, definitely. whatever the topic is.