Past Events

2012

San Francisco, California USA May 2012

Sydney, Australia May 2012

Boston, Massachusetts, USA May 2012

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 2012

Berlin, Germany May 2012

London, England May 2012

San Rafael, California USA May 2012

Chicago, Illinois, USA May 2012

Long Beach, California USA May 2012

Sacramento, California USA May 2012

Marin Headlands, California USA May 2012

San Francisco, California USA April 2012

Geneva, Switzerland April 2012

Washington, DC USA April 2012

New York, New York, USA April 2012

April 2012

San Francisco, California USA April 2012

Geneva, Switzerland April 2012

Washington, DC, USA April 2012

New York, New York, USA April 2012

San Francisco, California USA April 2012

Palm Desert, California USA April 2012

San Francisco, California USA April 2012

March 2012

San Francisco, California USA March 2012

Seattle, Washington, USA March 2012

Los Angeles, California, USA March 2012

San Francisco, California USA March 2012

Richmond, California USA March 2012

San Francisco, California USA February 2012

Amsterdam, Netherlands February 2012

Toronto, Canada February 2012

Los Angeles, California USA February 2012

San Francisco, California USA January 2012

Mountain View, California USA January 2012

Lamu, Kenya January 2012

Marin Headlands, California USA January 2012

2011

San Francisco, California USA December 2011

Detroit Michigan USA December 2011

New York, New York USA December 2011

Oakland, California USA November 2011

New York, New York USA November 2011

London, England November 2011

San Francisco, California USA October 2011

Modesto, California October 2011

San Francisco, California USA October 2011

Bakersfield, California USA October 2011

Mountain View, California USA October 2011

San Francisco, California USA October 2011

Modesto, California USA October 2011

Toronto, Canada October 2011

San Francisco, California USA September 2011

Fresno, California USA September 2011

Berlin, Germany September 2011

Phnom Penh, Cambodia September 2011

Sacramento, California USA August 2011

San Francisco, California USA August 2011

Ontario, California USA August 2011

July 2011

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Aspiration will offer a two-day training designed to help nonprofit organizations make more effective, sustainable use of online technologies.

The trainings are targeted at grassroots nonprofit organizations focused on social change and community health issues across the state of California.

The trainings will be highly interactive, following a question-driven format and employing hands-on exercises. Participants will be encouraged to bring their real-world needs and challenges to the discussion.

After the training, participants will have:

A better understanding of how to assess and engage their online audiences
A straightforward model for planning and scheduling online messaging
A framework for coordinating various online channels including web, email and social media
Ideas about how to leverage blogging and social media in their communications efforts
Knowledge about how to track where their organization and issues are being mentioned online

These trainings are supported by the generosity of the California Consumer Protection Foundation, with meeting space generously provided by The California Endowment.

For questions and inquiries about the training, please call Aspiration at (415) 839 6456 or email us at info@aspirationtech.org

Los Angeles, California USA July 2011

Sacramento, California USA July 2011

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Join us for a collaborative training designed to help nonprofits coordinate their online communications and make sense of using different online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs.

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

The agenda will be driven by the participants but will likely include sessions on "Intro to Blogging", "Social Networks for Organizing" or "Building a Publishing Matrix to Coordinate Your Online Channels."

Come with your stories, doubts, and questions! The training is small and suitable for all skill levels so reserve your spot today because space is limited.

When?

The Central Valley eAdvocacy Program is generously funded by the California Consumer Protection Foundation. Big thanks to CMC in Sacramento for their great support and the Nonprofit Innovation Center for providing the event space.

San Jose, California USA July 2011

Los Angeles, California USA July 2011

Sacramento, California USA June 2011

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Join us for a collaborative training designed to help nonprofits coordinate their online communications and make sense of using different online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and emails.

The agenda will be driven by the participants but will likely include sessions on "Intro to Twitter and Facebook for Organizing" and "Building a Publishing Matrix to Coordinate Your Online Channels."

Come with your stories, doubts, and questions! The training is small and suitable for all skill levels so reserve your spot today because space is limited.

When?

Where?

Nonprofit Innovation Center
1331 Garden Highway
Sacramento, CA 95833
(Click for Map)

Fresno, California USA June 2011

Oakland, California USA June 2011

Vilnius, Lithuania June 2011

Albuquerque, New Mexico USA June 2011

Toronto, Canada June 2011

Oakland, California USA June 2011

May 2011

Modesto, California USA May 2011

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Thanks to everyone who attended the May 17 Modesto training, Starting Your Nonprofit on Social Media, as part of the Central Valley eAdvocacy Program.

We hope you found the training useful and now have a better understanding of using different online tools for your organization.

The following are the materials used during the training.

These materials are distributed under a Creative Commons license, and we encourage re-use, modification, and re-distribution in any situation where they may be useful.

We will continue to create discussions and feature opportunities to get your questions answered about online communications. Any feedback is much appreciated!

The Central Valley eAdvocacy Program is generously funded by the California Consumer Protection Foundation. Big thanks to Congregations Building Community for their great support and El Concilio for providing the event space.

Berkeley, California USA May 2011

Sacramento, California USA May 2011

Jakarta, Indonesia May 2011

Toronto, Canada May 2011

Fresno, California USA April 2011

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We continued our Central Valley eAdvocacy Capacity Building Program with a training in Fresno, CA on Wed, April 6 from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. This collaborative and hands on training provided nonprofits a better understanding of how to start using social media, like Twitter, Facebook, or blogging, for their organization.

The following are the materials used during the training.

These materials are distributed under a Creative Commons license, and we encourage re-use, modification, and re-distribution in any situation where they may be useful.

The Central Valley eAdvocacy Program is generously funded by the California Consumer Protection Foundation. Special thanks to the Center for Multicultural Cooperation for coordinating the event space and providing interests of the Central Valley.

Questions? Email centralvalley@aspirationtech.org

Miami, Florida USA April 2011

Beijing, China March 2011

Washington, DC USA March 2011

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Learn about Free and Open Source for nonprofits!

Penguin Day returned to Washington DC right after the 2011 NTC. We got to collaborate with lots of friends, old and new alike at the Josephine Butler Parks Center.

Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists learn about free and open source software that can support their work and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing, fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.

Sessions included...

Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems
Participating in Free and Open Source Communities
Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress
Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications
Free Culture, Creative Commons And Open Content
Managing Constituents with CiviCRM
Mozilla Drumbeat and the Open Web

p>Penguin Day DC 2011 was organized by Aspiration and PICnet.

It was a great day and we hope to see lots of you at the next one!

Toronto, Canada March 2011

San Francisco, California USA March 2011

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We're excited to be partnering with Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco for SF-IM Summit 2011, aka “New Tools for the Public Good” On Saturday, March 5, 2011, from 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM.

The Aspiration team will facilitate sessions that include “Facebook and Twitter 101”, "Intro to blogging", "Beginning and Intermediate WordPress”, “Listening Online with a Social Media Dashboard”, “Managing Online Channels with a Publishing Matrix”, and “How to Build a Good Nonprofit Web Site for Almost Nothing.”

The theme of SF-IM is using social media and other emerging technologies for the public good. Sessions will feature opportunities for discussion and hands-on learning. Importantly, the focus of SF-IM is on peer-to-peer learning and conversation, not tech-talk and PowerPoints. SF-IM’s programming is ideal for anyone interested the public possibilities of the emerging media technologies, and is suitable for a wide range of abilities, from beginner to advanced.

Berlin, Germany March 2011

San Jose, California USA February 2011

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Big thanks and love bombs to TechSoup Global for inviting us to design and run their 2011 Contributors' Summit earlier this month. The event brought together an amazing bunch of folks from over 40 countries, for collaborative discussions on topics ranging from disaster response and accessibility to cloud computing and the future of philanthropy.

Check out the Day 1 and Day 2 blog posts from the amazing Beth Kanter.

February 2011

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February 8th, 2011 2pm-4pm

The "Request for Proposal", or RFP, is a critical element of any well-executed technology project that involves soliciting the services of external vendors and solution providers. But the concept of RFPs can be daunting to those who have not authored one, and even for those who understand the importance, many nonprofits are confused about how to write one, and what to include.

This interactive workshop will invite participants to share their knowledge and organizational practices with RFPs, and hear how others manage the same. In addition, Aspiration will demonstrate the templates and processes we use for the "RFP Coaching" that we provide to nonprofits when they need to solicit bids for web sites or other technology projects. Come with your stories and your questions, and be prepared to share both!

San Francisco, California USA February 2011

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February 2nd, 2011 2pm-4pm

Many nonprofits have no idea how their online messages are propagating and what is being said about them online. This hands-on, learner-driven event allowed participants to set up their own "listening dashboard" where they can track the impact of their online communication efforts (websites, blogs, Twitter, and more), while also tracking issues pertinent to their organization, all from a single free online space. Participants used the free Netvibes tool to create their dashboards.

The following are the materials used during the training.

These materials are distributed under a Creative Commons license, and we encourage re-use, modification, and re-distribution in any situation where they may be useful.

San Francisco, California USA January 2011

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January 21st, 2011 2pm - 4pm

The advent of the internet and the emergence of "cloud" computing have slowly but surely created new categories of institutional vulnerabilities for nonprofit organizations over the past 15 years. From ownership of domains and hosting of web sites, to safeguarding remotely stored data, to managing virtual relationships, there exit best practices for security and sustainability that are understood by far too few nonprofits.

This workshop will provide an overview of considerations in managing organizational online identity, and demonstrate processes, best practices and rules of thumb for effectively safeguarding and protecting the virtual side of your nonprofit organization.

San Francisco, California USA January 2011

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January 14th, 2011 2pm-4pm

As options for online engagement proliferate, many nonprofits find it confusing to manage and effectively coordinate organizational messages and campaigns. This training gave nonprofits who are starting out in social media and online communications a framework in which to look at different communications channels as effective for organizational goals. In this hands-on workshop, participants put together actual tools that they can use as an organization to inform and structure processes surrounding how, when and why to use the mind-numbing plethora of social media outlets, blogs and communications channels.

This training also gave participants a structure in which to think of these channels so that it is no longer a huge array of strangely-named tools to learn. Rather, a selection of tools for an organization to choose from to achieve broader organizational goals.

The following are the materials used during the training.

These materials are distributed under a Creative Commons license, and we encourage re-use, modification, and re-distribution in any situation where they may be useful

San Francisco, California USA January 2011

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We got to stay in our own neck of the San Francisco woods to design and facilitate Code for America's first-ever all-hands planning and strategy meeting. The fact that we got to co-conspire with our fine friend and inspiration David Eaves and open democracy thinker Tim Oreilly made it all the more excellent.

The day brought together CfA Staff and Board with 24 incoming Fellows who will be working in Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, DC. Meeting together for the first time as a whole team, and this event focused on planning and strategizing for 2011 by collaboratively sharing knowledge and mapping knowns, unknowns and project priorities.

We're excited to see where the Code for America project leads, and we wish them the very best as they set out to change the way municipal governments do both technology and democracy.

2010

Santiago, Chile November 2010

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We happily answered a call from the amazing folks at Personal Democracy Forum to partner on some work for The Man in Chile.

In collaboration with PDF and the Tech@State team, we led design of the Spanish-language agenda for TechCamp Santiago, trained the facilitation team, and oversaw the proceedings. En Espanol, no less!

p>The goals of the event were two-fold. First, to bring together techies and NGO stakeholders from across South America for discussion on how technology could better support NGO and community needs in the region. And second, to generate some problem statements for hacking on at the December 4th Random Hacks of Kindness events taking place around the world.

We heartily thank PDF for getting us involved in this first-of-its-kind event, and to all our Aspiration allies across Latin America, including EducaLibre, Nunklaki Comunicações and Chile Ayuda for their amazing help lighting up participants and keeping the event facilitation real.

Oakland, California USA November 2010

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The 2010 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, California was a smashing, sold-out success!

Check out:

Full Event Agenda and Schedule
The latest Session Slate by Thematic Area.
We heartily thank all our Agenda Partners!

A big love bomb of thanks to all who joined us for this 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.

You can also check out the proceedings from the 2009, 2008, and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summits.

Barcelona, Spain November 2010

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We were excited to continue our collaboration with Mozilla and the Drumbeat initiative at the first-ever Drumbeat Festival - Freedom, Learning and the Web in Barcelona.

Aspiration helped with interactive facilitation and agenda design in the tents and spaces that made up the event venue. We also bottom-lining social media efforts at the event, and worked to keep things as unpredictably collaborative as we could.

Among other things, we partnered with Peer 2 Peer University on the Badge Lab and co-conspired to create cool code with WebMadeMovies.

Other fun activities on the agenda included:

Learn how to organize a Peer 2 Peer University course
Help build a 'digital backpack' to track credentials for online learners
Convert a public square into a learning lab with the Hackbus
Trade ideas about teaching the open web
Share best practices for open web hackers
Integrate Wikipedia into your learning project

We got to see lots of Aspiration friends and allies there, and we look forward to working more with Mozilla in 2011!

Barcelona, Spain October 2010

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Fresh off the fun of the Peer 2 Peer University Open Assessment Workshop, we were delighted to partner with P2PU again to design and run their annual global community workshop.

Taking place before the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival and Open Ed 2010 conference, the workshop provided a venue for the P2PU community leadership to take stock of growth and successes of the past year, while also addressing issues of governance, community, sustainability and of course learning.

The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU provides the social environment necessary for meaningful learning and mechanisms for validation of achieved learning. P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers and it is run and governed by volunteers. We are grateful to work with them as they rethink education in the online context.

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