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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters.

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Change.org is Hiring Bloggers for Social Action Blog Network

Have Fun - Do Good

Want to blog on an issue you are passionate about for an audience of hundreds of thousands of activists and nonprofit leaders? Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? To apply, go to [link]. I've pasted the blurb below: Hiring Bloggers for Change.org! blogging job activism

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience

Tech Soup

For instance, take this long, amazing story, Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life by Andrea Elliott, published in The New York Times. You Understand the Issues — Use That to Your Advantage. As a co-coordinator for NetSquared DC, I recently helped organize a storytelling event in DC.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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Pamela Ashlund talks about blogging in the nonprofit workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pamela Ashlund's first job was with a small nonprofit that provided services for the homeless and mentally ill over twenty years ago. ???I She caught my attention when she announced her blog over at Netsquared. They might come across it professionally now that I write about industry issues. Well, I don't send links to them.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

If we take the time to be an active part of our community and hear about the issues and opportunities our organization’s programs or services could address, yet aren’t given the authority to start working on addressing those issues or options, then we lose our ground and our momentum. But we need new resources, too.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Wiki Issues.

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