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Aspiration Tech
Aspiration helps nonprofits and foundations use software tools more effectively and sustainably. We serve as ally, coach, strategist, mentor and facilitator to those trying to make more impactful use of information technology in their social change efforts.
We catalyze and strengthen physical communities of nonprofit users and software developers by convening and facilitating innovative technology events. We empower virtual communities of nonprofit users and developers through the Social Source Commons, which maps out available software tools and related information resources. And we provide strategic capacity building services, working with software developers to produce better tools for nonprofits, and with nonprofits to better leverage these tools.
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Ushahidi Pirates and Ninjas Summit 2012
Dates: 16 January, 2012 - 19 January, 2012
Holed Up in a Castle on the Indian Ocean Well, where to begin. Ushahidi, the wonderful open source mobile platform, held their 2012 Pirates and Ninjas Summit in Lamu, Kenya in a castle by the sea. We sure were grateful to be there to facilitate. The team met earlier than usual this year to get a head start on planning out timelines for 2012 and beyond, including the core platform, Crowdmap, and SwiftRiver. Serious work was balanced by serious play, including full-contact Marco Polo. We enjoyed the fine cuisine of Ali Samosa in Lamu town, and spent the last night perfecting our dance moves for the event theme song. And we all laptop-squatted before and after the event at the amazing iHub. We are already looking forward to next year :^)
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February Lunch Time Nonprofit Tech TalksNow that we are all over the holiday hangover, it’s time to assess how your communications strategy is working for you. At the SFNTC, we are holding a series of no-cost workshops for nonprofits and social justice organizations to ramp up their online communications. Space is limited, so register today! Bring your own lunch and be ready to participate. The seminars scheduled are: Introduction to Analytics How to Create a Message Calendar
Coordinating your Online Channels with a Publishing Matrix
Building a Social Media Dashboard
All trainings will be held at the: San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center Check out the training descriptions and register. We’d love to see you there!
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Talkin' Blackbaud BluesI’ve been following the online discourse (e.g. NTEN-DISCUSS, Information Systems Forum, Progressive Exchange and Nonprofit SalesForce) around Blackbaud’s announced acquisition of Convio. As some express optimism and positive spin about that merger, I feel the need to speak up on behalf of the organizations and activists we serve. Please pardon me if I sound a tad strident, these thoughts have been years in the making.
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Nonprofit Tech Teach-In
Date: 18 January, 2012
Join us for a one day training event for Bay Area nonprofits and social justice organizations, hosted at the Google offices in Mountain View, California! This is a great opportunity to work with three different organizations—Community Technology Network, Aspiration, and Google—offering support to empower you with tech skills so you can magnify your social justice passions and priorities. View the training materials here. During this 1 day event, nonprofit staff will have the opportunity to:
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Building a Social Media Dashboard
Date: 19 January, 2012
The new year is coming, are you ready?!? Join us at the San Francisco nonprofit technology center for another no cost workshop. This workshop is designed to help you set up a Social Media Listening Dashboard for your nonprofit or social justice organization. Many nonprofits have no idea how their online messages are propagating and what is being said about them online.
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December Online Communications TrainingsAt the SFNTC, we are holding a series of no-cost workshops for nonprofits and social justice organizations to ramp up their online communications before the new year. Space is limited, so register today! The seminars scheduled are:
December 6th, 2011, 1pm - 3pm E-newsletters for Fundraising (session repeat) December 8th, 2011, 1pm - 3pm December 16th, 2011, 1pm - 3pm December 20th, 2011, 1pm - 3pm All trainings will be held at the: San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center Check out the training descriptions and register. We’d love to see you there!
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2011 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
Dates: 16 November, 2011 - 18 November, 2011
--> Aspiration's Annual NPTechie Love Fest took place right on schedule this year, 16-18 November at Preservation Park in Oakland.
A big love bomb of thanks to all who joined us for this and past Dev Summit's, as well as all of you who will join in the fun at next 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.
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Intro to Social Media and Blogging
Date: 29 November, 2011
This is the second in our weekly series of 2-hour workshops offered at the San Francisco Nonprofit Tech Center designed to help you get ready for the new year! Join us for a collaborative training designed to help nonprofits 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.
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Coordinating Your Online Communications Channels with a Publishing Matrix
Date: 15 November, 2011
Ramp up your online communications before the end of the year with our no-cost workshop on November 15th from 1-3pm about how to coordinate your online communications at your nonprofit. The training kicks off our weekly series of 2-hour workshops designed to help your organization prepare for the new year!
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Best Practices for Cloud Documents WEBINAR
Date: 14 November, 2011
Join us remotely for a no cost webinar on best practices for nonprofits around sharing and storing documents “in the cloud.” This training will focus on the pros and cons of the cloud, use cases for Google docs, privacy issues, and a brief glimpse of other cloud based software we find useful. This webinar is part of the California Capacity Building Network program and is sponsored in part by HandsOn Network
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