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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: Are you creating an online campaign with a group of young folks? Are you interested in becoming an activist?5vsf8sx289ika4rtl80r61wsmqclyamu If you have an important story to share online, start here!4pufltgfdv84ufkbmvuti5h3eq3h9514 Watch the video to get the 3 minute e-Advocacy crash course, What is e-Advocacy?43ww3i322dqpl6mo9v3ecsq925qd7ap1, produced by Jennifer Dueñas from the [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: Have you been thinking about how to get people to care about the information you are putting online?jfxy6jg2mfvzhvz7u3b7wqbwr0tgur24 As you begin the process to engage people in the offline or online world, you have to figure out how your messaging reaches the people you care about by tapping into what [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: As much as we love tools here at SSC, we find that many nonprofits focus too much on them when thinking about their technology strategy and infrastructure. While tools are an important and necessary piece, it’s important that an organization focus on the more crucial piece of the technological equation: [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: Continuing the email newsletter support that started with Why HTML Email Newsletter Editors Suck, I put together a toolbox on Social Source Commons of tools that I use at Aspiration to create our HTML email newsletters.vcd80gzzmlb5cofxgf3esrxehp23k6g6 The Custom Description Text of each tool tells you a little bit about why [...]

How Do You… Find… the People You Love?">How Do You… Find… the People You Love?

(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: Thanks to everyone who took our survey for the new TechFinder’s rating system last week! So far, people seem to look for a middle ground between an easy and a detailed rating process. More than half of our survey-takers chose the simple 1-5 or 1-100 rating scale, and half of [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: Hey, I’m Caroline– I’m working with Aspiration this summer on developing the new Techfinder. In 2010, TechSoup Global and NTEN decided to retire their site TechFinder.org, passing the data on to Aspiration with an invitation to create a next-generation version. For much of the past decade, TechFinder served as a [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: You’re creating ANOTHER social network?? Photo courtesy of doctabuhbf2fr4kurimf9r9ty6iggrkrg6682gg Here at Social Source Commons we see a lot of tools. Many of them are flash-in-the-pan or sputter out fast. What’s the problem? Organizations create tools and websites that no one uses. They tend to think in terms of the features [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: New Hire = Unicorns & Technological Infrastructurect2wdpkr78v0p6xj0ga7nu84bap2wf5z Aspiration recently had the pleasure of welcoming a new employee, Misty Avila! This is awesome, we love her and everyone is holding hands in the unicorn and rainbow fields. Flash to the next day when Matt has to ramp her up to Aspiration’s [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: A couple of days ago, on the Aspiration Facebookhcmzngsj2c2kx7vly88031fn7iv5phsw page, I asked if people thought it was cool and kosher to take screenshots of Facebookhcmzngsj2c2kx7vly88031fn7iv5phsw comment threads and stick them into blog posts. The replies were varied and I encourage you to take a look at this screenshot of the [...]

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(English → Afrikaans) View originalTranslators: This past Wednesday wrapped up the 2010 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA and, let me tell you, it was a pretty sweet time. There were a lot of amazing people, projects and energy that came together and truly made it a community event.eym8d5paaxatblsag9tur4su4x4k0l84 Some of the Great Orgs [...]

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