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Effective Social Media Workflow
Aspiration Executive Director Allen Gunn was delighted to speak at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, on one of his favorite topics, Effective Social Media Workflow.
Aspiration/TechSoup Webinar on Twitter Essentials
Aspiration once again partnered with TechSoup for another free webinar, Around the Twitter World in 60 Minutes.
Twitter has claimed its place on the short list of communications tools for nonprofits and libraries to consider when designing online strategies. The webinar surveyed the Twitter landscape, explaining core concepts, enumerating best practices, and describing the tools and tactics that exist to leverage Twitter’s strengths.
Aspiration December 2009 Newsletter is Out!
Hot off the presses, our end-of-year newsletter is yours for the clicking. In this edition:
- Nonprofit Software Dev Summit Caps a Rich Year of Events
- eAdvocacy Mentoring and Capacity Building Enters 4th year
- Help Us Test the Answr Platform
- New Aspiration Book: Open Translation Tools
- Doing Our Part to Create Better Tools and Resources
And if you didn’t receive the newsletter by email, please consider joining our mailing list. It’s low-volume and targeted at people who care about improving the state of software for social change.
What Should a Web Site Cost?
Aspiration was giddy happy to be invited to present the latest, greatest version of our “What Should A Web Site Cost” slideware on TechSoup’s December Webinar.
The online event was attended by over 200 great folks who posed excellent questions and comments. You can check out the audio from the webinar, as well as the resource list of great web site implementors and designers.
Thanks to Kami Griffiths at TechSoup for inviting us on over!
Gunner Speaks About Sustainable Social Media at Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Aspiration was delighted to accept an invitation from Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers to speak at their Annual Member Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Key points were captured in our ever-improving (*gasp*) slideware. We welcome comments, and we’re glad to discuss these essential sustainability processes with anyone who’s interested.
Cell Phones for Campaigns -- Stories from MobileActive
MobileActive is over but the work has just begun…Stories about the convergence and the use of cell phones and texting in avocacy and civic campaigns are coming in fast after the first-ever MobileActive. The event brought together a group of activists from around the globe to explore the use of cell phones for social justice and citizen participation campaigns.
Patrick Burnett, a participant from Fahamu, puts it well: "In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) SMS is being used to monitor child rights violations.
In Argentina indigenous communities are using SMS to halt the bulldozers that destroy their forest livelihoods. And in the Philippines, angry activists have used SMS to hold government to account. The power of cellular technology is no longer up for debate; what remains to be discussed is how to maximize it for social good. Mobile Active Convergence, held recently in Canada, did just this… What came out of the three-day event…went far beyond this expectation, as a diverse group of people from around the world banged their heads together, mixed their ideas and thrashed out a vision for just how far cellular technology can go in creating a better world. The end result was new ideas, the formation of a lasting network and the production of a body of knowledge available to many beyond the confines of the conference."





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