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Vote for the sessions you want at 11NTC

Amy Sample Ward

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. We’ll invite three participants to serve as case studies, break up into small groups and collectively map out an online strategy.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. It puts one type of data on a map. Ushahidi's Early Days.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. New Orleans, Louisiana: The Mother of All Meetups Returns to Present the Power of the Presentation. Los Angeles, California: Using Technology in Local Activism. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

Not only will you be contributing your skills to local nonprofits, you'll also be building your reputation and connecting with your tribe. New Orleans, Louisiana: Putting NOLA on the Product Hunt Map. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. You should, because it's awesome fun.

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

Bloomerang

Additionally, you know, right now paint’s hard to find, or is becoming harder to find because last year there was an ice storm in Texas and Louisiana, and of which is where most of our paint is refined and made and, you know, shipped out to Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams. But again, the capital campaign is about a sequence of events.