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Yes, I wear a suit sometimes

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I keynoted the Illinois Computing Educators - ICE conference recently, and someone posted a picture on Flickr. Tags: ice educators keynote fruchterman. It's fun to go out and tell stories to hundreds of people. Mainly, I talk about where Benetech comes from.

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Jimmy Fencing

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm between speaking four times in Illinois on Friday (will blog about that soon) and heading to Washington DC today (Sunday) for three days of meetings around Bookshare and social entrepreneurship. Tags: Fencing Jimmy. Somebody captured a great picture of Jimmy (which I asked him to send me) in full fencing gear during the tourney.

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Chicago-Area Nonprofits: 2010 Technology Leadership Award Applications Due January 29

Tech Soup

2006 - Illinois Legal Aid : Launched a new website, www.IllinoisLegalAid.org , which delivers comprehensive legal information, self help resources, and referrals to free and low-cost legal services for Illinois residents who cannot afford an attorney. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients.

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Cell Phone Data Cleaning – It's Easy

Tech Soup

This week I had the chance to attend the Electronics & Sustainability: Design for Energy and the Environment Symposium at the University of Illinois. Tags: GreenTech Hardware Telecom Services. One presentation I really liked was from Chuck Newman, the founder and chairman of ReCellular , which is the largest U.S.

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How To Recruit Sponsors For Your Virtual Fundraising Event

CauseVox

SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois had each of their sponsors create team pages. Consider adding things like location, interests, or specific demographics so that you can share detailed information about your attendees when you pitch sponsors. Ask your sponsors to co-host marketing elements leading up to the event.

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What can we learn from movement builders who built movements before there was Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We worked for 20 years on the issue of giving medically underserved women in Illinois access to choice in childbirth.  It took 20 years to get legislation passed to allow the building of these centers in Illinois. " Tags: movement building.   Free standing birth centers are a good example of what I mean.

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Welcome to the Blogosphere: Julia Fabris McBride

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the time, she was deputy director for programming at the Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation (IAAF). Technorati Tags: arts , artsadministration , artsmanagement She has since started her own consultanting company, Community Collaborations. In March 2006 Julia and her husband, architect William A.