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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Want to build a powerful movement online?

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Online Community Unconference June 10 in Mountain View, California

Tech Soup

Next week, I'll be attending The Online Community Unconference (OCU) , along with my TechSoup community colleague, Susan Tenby. The OCU is a gathering of online community practitioners — managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors — to discuss experiences and strategies in the development and growth of online communities.

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Listening Tools

Care2

People want to be better listeners. Or at least they want to figure out what the right tools are. Beth Kanter’s final session of the day “Listening Tools&# drew a large crowd of curious attendees at the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference on Friday, June 25th.

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She's Geeky -- An Unconference for Women in Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is an unconference so it will have an agenda created by the people who attend. Research for and about technology/people. You can like and use the tools???or s useful for people and believe that passionate, geeky women???s Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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Tips to Humanize Your Social Media

Care2

Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked. How uninspiring for a sector filled with passionate people who are trying to change the world and make it a better place to live.

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. This gives the capacity to pay attention to what people are saying and be nimble in responding. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti.