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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. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people 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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The Social Web is Not Flat

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media.

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Nonprofit Technology Conference: Where You Want to Be on Day One

Tech Soup

Folks from TechSoup Global will be presenting at several breakout sessions and activities during # 10NTC. Unconference: NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Below is the best way to keep up with them on day one of the conference. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. These same tools can support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities, and other kinds of organizations." These fall into the category of CRM.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Any many more.

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Troubleshooting online and in-person — pivoting conversations, interrupting, encouraging conversation, covering if the presenter doesn't show, etc. The workshops topics included.

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