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MarketingProfs Free Virtual Conference

Tech Soup

MarketingProfs , an online marketing resource center, is presenting a free virtual conference on online marketing. The keynote presentation by David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Manager, is titled The Art of the Possible: Online Branding Strategies and Tactics.

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Advancing the New Machine: A Recap from the Human Rights and Technology Conference

Tech Soup

MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center. TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. & Catherine T.

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Conferencing Virtually with Libraries in Iowa

Tech Soup

Back in January of 2008, a network of rural libraries decided to host an online conference to provide an opportunity for library staff and trustees to attend continuing education sessions in an online format, helping to reduce the strain on staffing and budgets. You don't have to work for a library to benefit from their experience.

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YOU ARE INVITED!

Grant Professionals Association

Our Chapter is holding its annual conference in a couple of months. This occurred the same year I decided to attend the GPA Conference - 2018 in Chicago, IL. At the conference, I met other South Florida members at a chapter dinner. “How long have you been working in the field?”, The what?”, I frowned while responding.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters.

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A Halo for Winners, A Crown for Cause Marketing Forum

Selfish Giving

I just returned from a great outing at Cause Marketing Forum’s 7th Annual Conference in Chicago last week. The conference featured some wonderfully entertaining and informative speakers, and CMF honored some incredible businesses and nonprofits with their signature “Halo Awards&# for outstanding cause marketing.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. So much innovation.