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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Tags: wiki. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link]. Much of this was done last year but it can't hurt to be sure it's up to date.

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Vote for the sessions you want at 11NTC

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the most successful online campaigns in the past few years — such as Tweetsgiving, opposition to mountaintop removal, government transparency activism in Canada, and the campaign for the Jena Six in Louisiana — have employed principles of community organizing to create effective online actions that helped activists win.

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Pro Bono Role Model of the Year

Care2

The winner will receive the title of Taproot Foundation’s first-ever Pro Bono Role Model of the Year and represent the foundation at the 2011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service from June 6 – 8 in New Orleans, Louisiana! Tags: Awards Nonprofit Events. Sounds pretty cool to me.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 24th 2009

NTEN

If you're an NTEN member and have nptech news, don't forget to tag your posts "NTEN member" or "nptech" -- and give me a heads-up! The 1300th submission to the Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards is the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO). David Neff 's Lights.

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AFP: MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts

AFP Blog

AFP: MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts: "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) — In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through users of the online social network.As

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Emily Metzgar » Blog Archive » NDLA 9: Interview with Melissa Flournoy

AFP Blog

Reference to a Podcast Interview with Melissa FlournoyEmily Metzgar » Blog Archive » NDLA 9: Interview with Melissa Flournoy: "Episode 9 of the New Day Louisiana Podcast features an interview with Dr. Melissa Flournoy, president and CEO of LANO, the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

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More Delightful Secrets: How Much Space Would You Give to an Exclusive Subset of your Audience?

Museum 2.0

As a second example, we later sojourned north to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a lovely art museum surrounded by incredible grounds on the seashore. Tags: design inclusion. At one point, we strolled out a non-descript door from the cafe to examine an outdoor sculpture.