Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

This afternoon, I will be presenting in Oakland (my homies) for the Oakland Chamber of Commerce monthly Nonprofit Roundtable. Here are more details from the Oakland Chamber's announcement: read more. Tags: Fundraising. We'll be covering " Nonprofit Technology on a Shoestring Budget ," from 2:30-4:30 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

4Change was initially proposed by Tom Dawkins (@tomjd) in Washington DC who is joined by Todd Pitt (@zerostrategist - Washington DC), Morgan Sully (@memeshfit - Oakland, California), Natasha Judd (@tashjudd - London, England), Edward Harran (@edwardharran - Brisbane, Australia) and Vibewire (@vibewire - Sydney, Australia). Stay on topic!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

4Change was initially proposed by Tom Dawkins (@tomjd) in Washington DC who is joined by Todd Pitt (@zerostrategist - Washington DC), Morgan Sully (@memeshfit - Oakland, California), Natasha Judd (@tashjudd - London, England), Edward Harran (@edwardharran - Brisbane, Australia) and Vibewire (@vibewire - Sydney, Australia). Stay on topic!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

If you're in the Bay Area November 18-20, come check out Aspiration's 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland. Tags: Accessible Technology. This is the third time Aspiration has hosted this event, and by the look of the session list , there will be no shortage of great discussions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Our second tea tasting stop was the Numi Tea Garden in Oakland. Numi Tea is an environmentally and socially responsible tea company based in Oakland (but you can buy their tea nationally). Tags: staycation. The hubs had a super yummy darjeeling tea. Happy stacationing! staycation tea local vacation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

1st Place : Urban Ecology for its East Bay Greenway project, a concept plan detailing a 12-mile bicycle and pedestrian pathway that will serve as a vital transportation and community building link between Oakland and Hayward. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Software. Runners-up : Light of Cambodian Children , Open Hand Studios.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tags: mozilla mozservice09 NPTech volunteer. Our partner OneWebDay also has a variety of service events taking place on and around Sept. 22nd, including a number of events in San Francisco. Get on out there and make a difference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology. Tags: Housekeeping. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery. Tags: Digital Divide Reporting Running Your Organization. This evening, I was happy to get away from the hotel for dinner in Atlanta's historic Grant Park neighborhood. Photo: Roger Burks ( Elliot Harmon , CC license ).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2017

But ease of use might come with a price tag even the most die-hard creators might not be willing to pay. A startup based in Oakland, California, VSCO allows you to create and add filters to your photos. Creating content nowadays has become easier than ever, making it harder to cling to excuses not to create.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

They were Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms (CFC) and Bruce Buckelew of Oakland Technology Exchange West (OTX West). Tags: GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2005

At the NTC Conference in Oakland in 2003, Compasspoint presented a workshop with the same title and it was packed and got rave reviews. Technorati Tags: nptech I'm sure the book is excellent. Here's the description from the Web Site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2007

Here's my blurb: I grew up in Mystic, CT (the town Mystic Pizza was based on) and live in Oakland, CA. Rabindranath Tagore You can read more 10 second bios on BlogHer , or follow the blogme2007 tag. The number of women attending this year has doubled! Even if you aren't going to BlogHer, you can still continue the meme.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Tags: linklove. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. Tags: programs visitors. At some point you have to make some "or" choices. You can't always do "and." In both cases, the institutions started with "and"--layering on parallel programming for specific audiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Tags: askbritt. . • Be a community gathering space. If the space allows, be a low-cost gathering space for your community to have meetings, readings, exhibit art, post events, etc. Organize other local businesses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2007

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. Tags: podcast activism activist interview. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P. Listen Read activist activism podcast interview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. They're going to be growing some food in one of the downtown West Oakland parks, which is pretty exciting. We live in the Bay Area, so we have an Oakland produce market in Oakland. Tags: interview podcast. Back to the models.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

April 29 - I'm heading to the Oakland Museum for the preview of its reopening. Tags: Quick Hits professional development. The workshop requires an RSVP, the talk does not. Both are open to the public. I'm psyched to see what their innovative team has done to make this community-focused institution better than ever.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

I see this happening in the overflowing visitor comments on the walls of the Oakland Museum of California, the lines snaking through the Minneapolis Institute of Art to submit to Foot in the Door --so many places. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). Tags: web2.0 On Wednesday, it's my birthday. Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0 Thanks in advance! interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

24th and that Michael Stein was one of the co-hosts, I assumed (wrongly) that it was Michael Stein , Internet Strategist from Oakland, CA. programming techniques, tagging and social bookmarking, blogging and they need to be looked at separately. When I heard that TechSoup will be hosting an online about Web 2.0 and Nonprofits on Oct.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. Tags: hybrid electric car. What's going on? hybrid electric car.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. Tags: Big Vision Podcast interview. I feel like there's this wave right now of citizen journalism. I feel like it's in the collective consciousness. Nothing is better then hearing the women for themselves.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

This is what happened at the Oakland Museum of California, which used its very successful co-creative Days of the Dead project as a kind of template for participatory redesign. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music. Tags: askbritt. Full disclosure: The number of ways these examples are biased is too many to list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Exhale , an award-winning pro-voice organization based in Oakland, California, provides a one-of-a-kind service for women and men with personal experiences of abortion: our national, multi-lingual post-abortion talkline. Tags: policy. promoting post-abortion health and well-being.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. Tags: professional development. Third, museums as a "place to be heard"--to share your voice, your stories, your interpretation. Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. What did you get out of AAM?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

It's also hard to implement when the content is not deeply personal--as in the Love Tapes, Exxon-Valdez, or the Vietnam War (in an Oakland Museum exhibition). Tags: exhibition Book Discussion: Visitor Voices. Again, a universal theme, easy to imagine, hard to implement honestly. If not for our visitors, how can we share it?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She cites the City of Oakland California’s Open Data Platform that make over 50 datasets viewable and understandable to the public including ones on crime, city infrastructure, parks and recreation facilities, and green businesses. The presentation also has additional resources to foster a culture of innovation.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

There’s a new one we want to launch—a traveling exhibition on 1968—we’ve proposed doing it in partnership with 3 other institutions in the country (Chicago, Oakland, Atlanta). Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 Or are you looking for new ways to experiment? It would travel to all of them and others as well.

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