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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country.

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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. A blog encourages openness and sometimes you might type things that you wouldn't say in other circumstances.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

To talk about the evolution of nonprofit technology we really need to pick a place to start, because the beginning could be anywhere. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology. Digital Tools. Digital Tactics.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Openness - ????A 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. Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to describe web resources with keywords.

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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. Newmark also spoke at length about the potential for good created by technology, why it matters and how anyone can contribute.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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