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Getting excited about the NCTech4Good conference
The North Carolina statewide conference, a NetSquared Campfire, is coming together very well!
WHEN AND WHERE?
Friday, June 25, 2010 8 am - 5 pm
at The William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill
Followed by a reception/networking opportunity from 5 pm to 7 pm
http://www.nctech4good.org
Conference registration is now open. Links:
Agenda: http://www.nctech4good.org/agenda
Speakers: http://www.nctech4good.org/speakers
Registration and sponsorship: http://www.nctech4good.org/register
Social Media and Foundation Week in Brussels
I haven’t used this blog for three years, but the time seems ripe for return. We–13 people from TechSoup Global–are in Brussels this week to participate in am ambitious project staged by the European Foundation Centre, which is roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Council on Foundations. Foundations in Europe and the States have both similarities and differences. You can find my somewhat mordant thoughts on the differences in this blog entry for Alliance Magazine, whose blog team Rebecca Masisak and I were honored to be invited to join. http://alliancemag.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/a-tale-of-two-cultures/
Camps Pilot notes from the Field: Week 4
This is the fourth post in a series I’m writing to reporting publicly about the Camps pilot as it develops, sharing questions and ideas each week from the global perspective of planning and creating events. I’ve having some greation conversations with colleagues like Bonnie Koenig this week that have continued to surface ideas and insights about our work. (If you haven’t been following these weekly notes, you can catch them all with the Camps-Notes tag.)
Net2 Recommends - This Month’s Interesting Posts from Around the Web
Buy land. They’re not making any more of it. But on second thought . . .
Everyone in the sector–no kidding, everyone!–should read this Nonprofit Quarterly piece by Clara Miller of the Nonprofit Finance Fund about the practices most likely to make nonprofits vulnerable to financial disaster. Pay particular attention to Ms. Miller’s skepticism about the value of owning one’s own building. The Nonprofiteer has argued for years that the likelihood [...]
Senior-Friendly Tools to get Grandma Wired
Over the years my family and I have worked together to help my Grandmother get wired. She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. Using the internet isn’t a new concept to my Grandmother, though it’s not really something she finds very intuitive either. That said, she understands the power of these tools, and relishes the opportunity to learn more.
My Grandmother also has a whole network of friends who are at various stages of computer use/online adoption. Recently, she asked me if I could share any resources for her and her friends to be able to network, learn and socialize on the internet.
Learn about NetSquared in Cameroon via Satellite TV
For the past two years, NetSquared membership has been growing in Cameroon. Today there are 5 groups in Cameroon and this Saturday they are hosting the first ever NetSquared Camp.
TechSoup Webinar: Successful Event Promotion with Social Media
Online event promotion sites can enable you to reach a much larger audience for practically nothing. These sites can be excellent traffic drivers to your site and enhance your search engine optimization to boot! Combine online event sites with social media and you’ve got more traffic, better visibility for your event, AND you can channel the energy of your friends, followers, and volunteers through social media sites to help get the word out!
In this webinar you will learn:
Actionable Listening: Learning from Watching Other Nonprofits
Actionable listening on social media channels means transforming a “river of noise” into insights that are actionable. That is, you gain insight, can make a decision, or do something. Listening can help your organization craft conversation starters, figure out how to best start engaging, identify social content that you can incorporate into your content [...]
