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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. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. ReWrite Oakland.

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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 has been a nonprofit finance executive ever since. She has been a nonprofit finance executive ever since. She caught my attention when she announced her blog over at Netsquared.

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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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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Openness - ????A A nonprofit organized named Creative Commons. I'm nervous.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. To talk about the evolution of nonprofit technology we really need to pick a place to start, because the beginning could be anywhere. Holistic Tools.

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San Francisco Net2: Craig Newmark Talks About Technology for the Common Good

Tech Soup

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. The growth of Craigslist opened up many circles for Newmark, including that of the nonprofit world. Photos: SF NetSquared Meetup.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

For folks who are interested in how you can use blogs and podcasts and other social media things for social change, basically the way I started was, I have always worked for nonprofits and socially responsible businesses, and was not technical at all. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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