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I’ve been involved in this Telesummit now since the beginning. It’s really fun, and important. The Women Who Tech Telesummit was formed three years ago to celebrate all the innovative women who provide incredible value to technology and social media. So it’s time to come get your tech on! Come join hundreds of women on September [...]

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page,  I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki.   In reflecting over the past three years,  the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring” or “research” to include several categories:   social media engagement management,  analytics, influencer identification, and [...]

Nonprofit Vote has recently created a toolkit help you improve your organization’s voter engagement activities. It’s designed to help you get started in planning and carrying out simple, effective, and nonpartisan voter engagement  - and all of the content is free and available online. 

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Jane Mayer’s excellent piece in this past week’s New Yorker about the brothers Koch, oil billionaires who’ve donated hundreds of millions to nonprofits promoting right-wing causes, finally clarified for the Nonprofiteer her unease at Bill Gates’s campaign to persuade billionaires to donate half their estates to charity.  It’s not a question of who has or [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Peter van der Linde, the co-founder and director of Akvo. Akvo is a platform dedicated to realizing drinking water and sanitation projects in developing countries across the globe.

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I’m here in Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania, for The Local Philanthropy Workshop run by the OdorheiuSecuiesc Community Foundation and TechSoup Romania. This three-and-a-half day event will really kick off tomorrow morning and lead well into the weekend, bringing together NGO and IT participants to work together, share needs and expertise, and build capacity to move Romania and our communities further towards the civil society and engaged philanthropy environment we all want. There will be plenty of conversations, workshops, and learning opportunities here at the conference facility, but our goal is to share out throughout the event so you can join the conversation!

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The FACT Social Justice Challenge opened for submissions last week (and will continue accepting your ideas until October 4th). There are already some great ideas in the mix and we wanted to take a minute today to help get you thinking about new Projects you could submit or maybe highlight a Project you are already working on that aligns with the Challenge topic. So, just what does “social justice” mean?

What is “Social Justice”?

For our purposes, let’s start with FACT’s “About” statement, at least as a starting point to lead the discussion:

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While some may think there are not a lot of high quality women who can speak on technology issues or are starting tech companies, it simply isn’t true.
Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change.  The [...]

Dear Nonprofiteer, One of our current issues is lack of short-term working capital. As with many organizations, our expenses always precede our revenue by weeks, sometimes months. We were carrying some debt into the recession, which worsened as the economy imploded. We’ve grown fairly organically through the recession and thankfully we have paid the debt [...]

Good News: Panasonic deside continue product ‘disabilitiy people using famous japanese communication tool “LetsChat”‘ today. industry company “FUNCOM” produces “LetsChat” has come to end its history this June(2010), and people using this tool was on the edge of losing their communication, but now OK! please read this blog with “LetsChat” http://is.gd/eLyve . and be fun of ‘LetsChat’ funpage http://bit.ly/letschatfb .