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The TechSoup team are hard at work continuing to add updates, new functionality, and usability to techsoup.org - here's a message from co-CEO Marnie Webb with more details:

At TechSoup Global we’ve been working hard on a new round of improvements to the TechSoup.org website.

I’m excited to update you on our progress and hear your feedback. A little over a year ago, we unveiled the first phase in a series of improvements to the site, including a new homepage design and enhanced search functionality. Those visible changes to the site also represented significant improvement to our back end systems — both hardware and software.

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This week both Gmail and Hotmail announced forthcoming changes in how they’ll handle email delivery.  While we won’t know the full impact of those changes until they launch (and you better believe we’ll be keeping an eye on them), we can share enough about what we do know  to get you thinking about how you engage your email lists.

It looks like the days of sending email with no “ask” are officially ending.

I was lucky enough to speak at the Salsa Labs Community Conference with Anne Dougherty from Clean Water Action and Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The title of the panel was "Ready, Set, Action! Translate Online Actions into Offline Results".

Each of us presented a very different perspective on this topic. I discussed the future of citizen engagement and how to get involved in bringing it to fruition. Alan presented his impressive social media strategy for creating offline results, and Anne presented ways to use Salsa to enhance the effectiveness of online campaigns.

Below is a brief overview of my presentation.

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The second day of the Local Phliantropy Workshop, kept in Odorheiu Secuiesc Romania, put on the same table NGO and IT mentors. NGO, found about a lot of tools that will solve the IT problems. There were 4 contents: Communication, Social Media, Web Site Building, Productivity. All the NGO's exposed their problems, and IT mentors, tried to come with the best solution. I were at the Socia Media "table", and we spoken about Facebook, Twitter,  Linked, Blogs, and how this tools will improve your popularity. He have a great fun here, and also learn about a lot of interesting things... See you later

Let's face it: finding good volunteers is tough. A good volunteer can be a priceless addition to the team, but the process of matching the expertise and timing needs of the project to the skills and availabilities of potential volunteers can take time and resources away from your organization. This month's Net2 Think Tank is exploring ways that organizations can use the internet to make finding volunteers more efficient and effective. Share your tools, tactics, and best practices with the NetSquared Community!

Topic:

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I would like to see marked tourist routes in Bucharest, that would contain monuments, important places, buildings etc... Also marking monuments and other important places is very necessary. Also, maps should be available in important places.

Do you know what drupal or civicrm are? Or how IT volounteers can help your organization?

During the last session on the day one of the Local Philathropy Workshop in Romania we were trying to find out and define the ways in which Romanian ITC volounteers could help local NGOs using specific tools that they have the knowlege about and experience in using.

Listen to Piotrek Szostkowski from CiviCRM talking about this program as a great example of how ITC can support NGOs

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A good day at this workshop, found out alot about other programs, organisations, and networked with alot of "geek" persons.
The first day mainly for getting to know each other and discuss alot about theoretical and ideal philantropy and charity; and after those discutions i realized that alot of us are good, charitable persons, but we all see it as just being a good person, as being polite, or just doing what we feel is good.

It had a great start, from my point of view, with an interesting exchange of oppinioins.

See you later.

Eid Mubarak

Wish the peace, prosperity, sustainable living and environmental justice for organism in universe

Annihilation, eradication of corruption – criminal, crook, deceiver, swindler

AIMED AT SUSTAINABLE LIVING, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Scholars, Intelligentsia, outstanding professionals from government, business, finance, journalism, NGOs and other fields......................................................

Please get together - Help the sasrai-Movement within Your limit

Keep a hand written sasrai-Movement Poster --- in any discussion area

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Please have initiative to serve the cause through your network

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How would you describe a perfect citizen? Where is the line between being kind and being socially engaged? What can we can philanthropy?

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Nonprofit Vote has recently created a toolkit help you improve your organization's voter engagement activities. It's designed to help you get started in planning and carrying out simple, effective, and nonpartisan voter engagement  - and all of the content is free and available online. 

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I recently had the opportunity to connect with Peter van der Linde, the co-founder and director of Akvo. Akvo is a platform dedicated to realizing drinking water and sanitation projects in developing countries across the globe.

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I'm here in Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania, for The Local Philanthropy Workshop run by the OdorheiuSecuiesc Community Foundation and TechSoup Romania. This three-and-a-half day event will really kick off tomorrow morning and lead well into the weekend, bringing together NGO and IT participants to work together, share needs and expertise, and build capacity to move Romania and our communities further towards the civil society and engaged philanthropy environment we all want. There will be plenty of conversations, workshops, and learning opportunities here at the conference facility, but our goal is to share out throughout the event so you can join the conversation!

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The FACT Social Justice Challenge opened for submissions last week (and will continue accepting your ideas until October 4th). There are already some great ideas in the mix and we wanted to take a minute today to help get you thinking about new Projects you could submit or maybe highlight a Project you are already working on that aligns with the Challenge topic. So, just what does “social justice” mean?

For our purposes, let's start with FACT's "About" statement, at least as a starting point to lead the discussion:

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