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December 2010 Community Builder’s Chat Wrap-up #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. All other job announcements are to be posted elsewhere. Read the full transcript here! Anyone who subscribes may post messages. Announcements of member openings are also permitted.

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Two Google engineers quit over firing of ethical AI leader Timnit Gebru

The Verge

In December, Gebru said she was abruptly fired over an email she sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv. I left because Google's mistreatment of @timnitGebru and @RealAbril crossed a personal red line I wrote down when I started the job. The departures point to an ongoing conflict between Google management and staff.

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FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month.

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Games for Change Is Seeking A Community Manager

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. I don't normally blog job announcements, but it is such a great organization and if I lived in New York I'd be appying myself. For detailed info see here.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Ask them what challenges they currently face in their jobs and talk about ways that strategically-implemented technology could help them. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds).

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

Tech Soup

We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. We're also not doing a great job capturing truly used up IT discards that can be used to harvest parts and raw materials like plastics, metals, and glass. that finds that Federal electronics recycling legislation could create as many as 42,000 direct and indirect new jobs.

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