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Donate Now!Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects - Washington DC 2010
8 February, 2010 - 9 February, 2010
Thurgood Marshall Center, Washington, DC
DAY 2 UPDATE: Thanks to all the folks whose positive attitudes contributed to a very fun and productive first day of MNTP. And apologies for craziness beyond our control to all of you who were unable to get in for the event.
That said, here is the plan:
We plan to hold MNTP day 2 tomorrow, STARTING AT 10AM AGAIN TO GIVE EVERYONE TIME TO GET THERE.
With the forecast for more snow tomorrow, we’ll keep an eye out the window to see if it makes sense to end early. But with 10 folks who have flown/bused in from far away (7 from California as of tomorrow!), we’re definitely going to make a go of it and honor all those travelers. And if it’s anything like today, it will be a rocking good time.
The federal government is again closed tomorrow, and that has us presuming the Thurgood Marshall Center will be closed as well, SO…
We’ll meet again at CITI HQ, located at 1330 U Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20009
The Metro has apparently announced that they plan to have full service on Green, Orange and Yellow lines, and limited service on Red and Blue. Hopefully this will allow more folks to get in from points farther out.
As always, the “local” contact number is 415.216.7252, and you should all feel free to call any time.
After a very successful DC debut this past July, Aspiration and Community IT Innovators (CITI) will host the fourth Nonprofit Technology Project Management event in Washington DC on the 8th and 9th of February, 2010.
Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects (MNTP) will examine the tools and best practices that help nonprofits deliver successful technology solutions - whether it be websites, packaged software implementations, or custom applications.
Feel free to join the event on Facebook and spread the word!
Also see Accommodations Information for those traveling from out of town.
Event Overview
Check out the latest agenda and the list of excellent facilitators. And we welcome participants to add sessions to the agenda.
Interactive sessions and demos will allow participants to compare processes, tools, successes, and lessons learned. Discussion topics will include team collaboration, project planning, software selection, migration, and project rollout, and mapping out software tools – from project management packages to collaborative communication to issue tracking and more – that support successful technology projects.
And feel free to join the MNTP discussion list, which we’re be using to discuss the agenda in the time leading up to the event.
Aspiration’s skill in facilitating practitioner knowledge combined with CITI’s experience in managing nonprofit technology projects will contribute to an informal, collaborative, and information-rich event.
Integrating Social Media into Your Website
gunner | 14 Jan 2010 - 22:06
Aspiration is looking forward to delivering another webinar in TechSoup’s most excellent webinar series, entitled Integrating Social Media into Your Website.
The webinar will be offered twice: Tuesday, January 19th (REGISTRATION FULL), and Thursday, February 4th at 11am (Register for free now!)
Webinar Overview
More and more organizations are benefiting from using social media tools like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter in their online communications. While the tools can be relatively straightforward to learn and adopt, many organizations struggle with how to effectively align messaging and communications across their online channels.
This webinar will focus on best practices for integrating social media into organizational websites, including basic nuts-and-bolts changes to web page templates and enhancements to contact, staff, and email sign-up pages. Effective and simple processes for coordinating various channels and maximizing traffic between them will be explained. In addition, a range of contrasts will be drawn describing the different natures and uses of the respective channels, and methods for measuring how different channels are driving traffic to one another will be presented.
Join Us for the February Edition of Aspiration's Social Media Sewing Circle!
3 February, 2010 - 4 February, 2010
San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center
If you are interested in being more effective with your use of social media in 2010, attending one of these two events will be a great way to build some momentum.
Each seminar is entitled “Building Your Own Social Media Dashboard”, and will be held at two times:
- Wednesday, February 3rd from 2pm to 4pm
- Thursday, February 4th from 2pm to 4pm
The goal of the workshops is to help nonprofit staff learn both about social media as well as how they can track the impact and reach of their messaging.
These hands-on, learner-driven events will allow participants to set up their own “listening dashboard” where they can track the impact of their online communication efforts (web, Facebook, Twitter, and more), while also tracking issues pertinent to their organization, all with a single free online tool. Participants will use the NetVibes platform to create their dashboards.
The workshops are designed for those starting out in social media as well as those who have established a social media presence but don’t know how to start assessing the reach of their messages and the online activity around their programmatic issue areas.
Because the workshops will be participant-driven, we’ll encourage discussion amongst the group, so bring your stories, questions and frustrations and we’ll see if we can sift out some answers and solutions.
The seminars will take place at the
San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center
1370 Mission St, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
See Map
This is a free and open event, but space is limited, so please RSVP to seminars@aspirationtech.org, and make sure to specify which day you’ll be attending.
Join Us for the January Edition of Aspiration's Social Media Sewing Circle!
8 January, 2010
San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center
If you are interested in being more effective with your use of social media in 2010, this event is a great way to start off the year with momentum.
The seminar is entitled “Building Your Own Social Media Dashboard”, and will be held on
Friday, January 8th from 2pm to 3:30pm
The goal of the workshop is to help nonprofit staff learn both about social media as well as how they can track the impact and reach of their messaging.
This hands-on, learner-driven event will allow participants to set up their own “listening dashboard” where they can track the impact of their online communication efforts (web, Facebook, Twitter, and more), while also tracking issues pertinent to their organization, all with a single free online tool. Participants will use the NetVibes platform to create their dashboards.
The workshop is designed for those starting out in social media as well as those who have established a social media presence but don’t know how to start assessing the reach of their messages and the online activity around their programmatic issue areas.
Because the workshop will be participant-driven, we’ll encourage discussion amongst the group, so bring your stories, questions and frustrations and we’ll see if we can sift out some answers and solutions.
The seminar will take place at the
San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center
1370 Mission St, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
See Map
This is a free and open event, but space is limited, so please RSVP to seminars@aspirationtech.org.
Aspiration December 2009 Newsletter is Out!
gunner | 23 Dec 2009 - 14:07
» eAdvocacy | Nonprofit Software Development Summit | Organizations and Networks | Software Applications for NGOs
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?
gunner | 17 Dec 2009 - 16:13
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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!
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