Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. Twitter feed and Flickr pictures.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) She and her senior policy adviser, Hal Plotkin, are huge fans of Open Educational Resources (OERs), having been involved in starting that movement in community colleges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media and mobile tools.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2017

Change doesn’t just happen in Washington, DC. Across the country, state and local governments make meaningful policy decisions that affect nearly every issue - from preventing gun violence, to protecting the environment, or safeguarding LGBTQ rights.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

Whether you’re introducing a change in ownership, new staff, policy change, technical update, or something else, community members sometimes resist change. How to Prepare Your Community for a Major Change « The Community Manager – "Change: it’s the one constant in life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 29, 2009

Sometimes, it's often hard to find the comments to reply to, at least for me, since I'm not a DC insider. The Office of Science and Technology Policy is trying something cool and new: they've set up new OSTP Blog for commenting on an important issue that President Obama wants feedback on: the question of maintaining scientific integrity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Formerly the chief technology officer the nation's capital city, Washington DC, his job now is to direct "the policy and strategic planning of federal information technology investments and is responsible for oversight of federal technology spending," according to the White house.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Today, I gave a presentation on human rights in DC, with a focus on our work with truth commissions. Over the years, AI has altered and expanded its mandate to address new human rights issues and to ease the creative tension between the demands of its grassroots membership and its organizational policy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 14, 2009

Add Ask Your Lawmaker to Your Site | Ask Your Lawmaker - Check out the Ask Your Lawmaker widget from Capital News Connection, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC. As <a href="[link] target="_blank">Deborah Elizabeth Finn</a> explains, "constituents from any district in the U.S.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 11, 2014

There’s been a lot of recent activity coming out of Washington, DC … it’s a good time for an update. We need to understand how potential changes in government policy and the law may impact us down the road … impact our ability to acquire and use data, impact our own data governance policies.

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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

Donald went on to lead New York’s PIRG (NYPIRG) into a powerhouse of an advocacy organization and organized one of the largest protests of the 1970s with 100,000 people on the mall in DC. When we say that M+R has its roots in organizing, we mean it. He led the effort to restore public broadcasting funding from Newt Gingrich.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

I was particularly fond of the talk series, where important policy makers and leaders would come to Caltech and talk to 15 or 20 people at the Y and drink Mountain Chablis! They had just take a group of students to Washington DC to meet Caltech alums working in science policy, but they want to go further.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

I had a vision of this being a DC-3 or some such, but it's a modern 737 that is rated as "ETOPS" which means it's able to fly for three hours on one engine. The weirdest thing about the island hopper was the security policy. Getting to these islands is not simple. The way to get to the main islands from the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture through a social media policy.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

National LGBTQ Task Force / Washington, DC / 475. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2018 Creating Change Conference convenes in Washington, DC, January 24-28, 2018. The Corps Network / Washington, DC / $875. DMA Nonprofit Federation / Washington, DC / $789. Creating Change Conference. Creating Change Conference. Jan 24 -27.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Paul Marengo from The DC Theater Arts Collaborative Board Members Willing to Be Leaders, Not Followers I want people who like to collaborate, who value partnerships and coalitions, and who are committed to advancing the policy and professional priorities of both our state/territorial chapters and the national office.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

McNutt Professor School of Public Policy & Administration University of Delaware Software to Support Program Evaluation Laura S. But this isn't a blog that merely aggregates what is heartfelt; it provides a cross-section of some important strategic and tactical thinking: Does Nonprofit Electronic Advocacy Work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept. To learn more about the Center for Community Change, please click here.

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 1, 2024

I say “officially” because May 1 is the date on our incorporation papers, but the real date is April 22, when I opened up shop in shared office space in Georgetown, Washington, DC. When I sent everyone home in March 2020, we already had a well-defined and well supported remote work policy.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

As every experienced volunteer manager knows, volunteers want and need support, strong leadership, and clear policies and procedures. You cannot be scared or nervous that if you enforce policies and procedures, your volunteers will quit and leave your organization. And, despite this ‘freedom,’ retention was low.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

As a result, the conditions under which data become information look different every day, whether in journalism, government, health care, education, publishing, philanthropy, policy research, nonprofit work, advocacy or countless other fields.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 20, 2021

You must register to conduct business in a handful of states—your home state, any states where you have paid staff, and North Dakota and DC (if you’re registered to fundraise there). Adhere to local mask and vaccination policies. When it comes to sales tax exemptions, note that each state has its own unique process. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. We've been in and out of touch over the years, but always virtually.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? Washington, DC – October TBA. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. We have always done this by tracking policy outcomes and media coverage. As a trainer, I always like to check back with participants 6 months to year after a training to see how they are doing.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

John Kenyon , Jennie Anderson, AIDS.gov , and William Neuheisel, DC Central Kitchen. Two excellent examples of effective online communications are AIDS.gov and DC Central Kitchen. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. DC Central Kitchen. AIDS.gov is a national HIV initiative of the U.S.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency. If you're a Drupal wiz looking for a challenge, give us a call. We want to rock the sector.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. They have a social media policy and handbook that provides the rule book for volunteers, staff, and affiliates to participate on social media channels effectively. I don’t often get a chance to listen and learn.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

You can apply now for a Google Policy Fellowship to work at Creative Commons in a 10-week Fellowship Program. Longtime member, Peter Campbell , just relocated to DC area, and fellow community members are getting together to celebrate his arrival. Creative Commons has an exciting new opportunity. Local folks, come join the celebration

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

, Marion Conway We Survived SXSW and Why We Still Love NTC , Demetrio Maguigad, LimeRed Studio Digital Marketing That Gets Results (#14NTCdigital) , James Howe What I Learned at #14NTC , Steve Heye NTC Summary 2014 Edition , Peter Campbell Why the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference was #Awesome , Jessica Williams, Prichard Communications Disrupting (..)

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2008

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The National Education Association Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization based in Washington, DC. Their strategic focus of leaders, teachers, and families also incorporates support for one of the strongest early childhood policy and advocacy networks in the nation. Areas served: Illinois.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This post originally appeared on TechSoup for Libraries.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

October 16-19 in Washington, DC : The PRSA International Conference, Powering PRogress will feature over 80 sessions across four tracks. " Highlights include the Public Policy Action Institute, nGen workshops and networking for emerging leaders, and a CEO track. One of those session is a panel featuring NTEN's Annaliese.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC. The challenge is that many of these laws and policies still need to be updated to account for social media and other Web 2.0 technologies.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

> DC 501 Tech Club. This week, they've been tackling both community work space options in the DC area, plus they got all geeky and talked about infrastructure options: 1 or 2 IS DB for your team? If you know what that means, and you work in DC, you should join the group here.

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