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Video Fridays #27 When Social Media Became News

NCE Social Media

The Arc of Northern Virginia is live tweeting their state’s budget hearings on funding for programs supporting people with intellectual disabilities. Tags: Tools news ted arcofnova tweeting. How have you used social media for your news source? Kuods to @TheArcofNoVa.

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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. One of my Northern Virginia colleagues, who works a very local organization – a homeless shelter – reported that she has a virtual volunteer from California. There’s more potential to engage the viewer with a live demo.

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Jimmy Fencing

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My wife Virginia and I were able to squeeze in a quick trip to Boston to see our son Jimmy fence in the Intercollegiate Fencing Championships, his last fencing tournament in college. Tags: Fencing Jimmy. Fencing has been a loflong passion for Jimmy and it sounds like it will continue past college: we hope so!

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The Voter Information Project

Forum One

It's election day in the Commonwealth of Virginia -- the state in which most Forum One staff call home. Many will turn to the internet for the answer and will find themselves at this polling place form on the Virginia State Board of Elections voter information web site. And if you live in Virginia, vote today! Where do I vote?

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Bureaucrats with Clue

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Previously Virginia's secretary of technology, Chopra will "promote technological innovation to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland," according to the White house. Tags: White House Sonal Shah Obama craigslist full circle fund Vivek Kundra WHOSI Aneesh Chopra.

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Fire up your Board!

Get Fully Funded

I had the privilege of hearing my friend and colleague Gail Perry present at the Virginia Fund Raising Institute recently. Tags: Board of Directors Board fundraising nonprofit. Gail is a wonderful speaker and has a way of making her audience feel at ease so they can soak up all the information she shares. It won’t happen.

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Fire up your Board!

Get Fully Funded

I had the privilege of hearing my friend and colleague Gail Perry present at the Virginia Fund Raising Institute recently. Tags: Board of Directors Board fundraising nonprofit. Gail is a wonderful speaker and has a way of making her audience feel at ease so they can soak up all the information she shares. It won’t happen.