On June 30th, 2011, Aspiration ran a training designed to help nonprofits coordinate their online communications and make sense of using different online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and emails.

The training was conversational and featured opportunities to get questions answered about online communications. It was ideal for anyone trying to juggle all the different online tools for their organization and those interested in new tools.

Aspiration was pleased to be able to run another eAdvocacy Training event, “Effective Online Advocacy for Grassroots Organizations”, which took place on July 7 and 8, 2011 in Los Angeles.

These trainings are generously sponsored by the California Consumer Protection Foundation (CCPF), and provided free of charge to the CCPF network.

Job Opening: Community Tech Support Specialist

Aspiration and Community Technology Network are hiring four (4) Americorp VISTA Community Tech Support Specialists to provide strategic technical assistance to Bay Area nonprofit organizations whose missions help to reduce poverty. The positions are made possible through the HandsOn Tech Corps.

Submit your application on the Tech Corps site!

This is an Americorps position.

The Position

We are seeking individuals who embrace new challenges, who are passionate about supporting technology innovation for the nonprofit sector, who work hard yet considers “fun” a core value in the workplace, and has experience working as part of a close-knit team…

Working with ArtSpark and Creative Albuquerque, Matt facilitated a training around Online Media Skills. Sunny, warm and full of artistic inspiration, the training looked at how artists and arts organizations could put processes around their outreach online.

The following are the materials he used during the ArtSpark Training in Albuquerque.

November 16-18th, 2011

Aspiration's Annual NPTechie Love Fest is taking place right on schedule this year, 16-18 November in Oakland.

We'll be posting registration info and other event resources in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, check out these resources from last year's Dev Summit:

• Full 2010 Event Agenda and Schedule
• The 2010 Session Slate by Thematic Area.
• Our amazing 2010 Agenda Partners!

A big love bomb of thanks to all who have joined us for past Dev Summits's, as well as all of you who will join in the fun at this year's high-spirited, fully-interactive festival of folks who are passionate about developing software tools to support the work of social change organizations and community activists.

Matt and Misty had a great time working with the UC Berkeley Labor Center on May 25th and May 26th for their Online Media Training Workshop. Talking to groups working across the labor movement, we had some great conversations around setting up organizational infrastructure for communications at your organization.

The following are the materials we used during the Berkeley Labor Center Spring 2011 eAdvocacy Trainings in Berkeley.