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pAspiration is proud to be partnering with a href=http://www.mozilla.orgMozilla/a to drive the local event strategy for their a href=https://wiki.mozilla.org/DrumbeatDrumbeat project/a. Aspiration will help to prototype what Drumbeat Local events look like across the globe, and train local organizers in how to design and run their own Drumbeat events. The event format and philosophy will be based on Aspiration#8217;s own a href=http://facilitation.aspirationtech.org/facilitation methodology/a./p pWhat is Mozilla Drumbeat? With the aim of finding the next cool ideas that will make the web more open, Mozilla has created Drumbeat, with the goal of better connecting and growing the global community of people using web technology to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. Drumbeat provides a forum for people to share project ideas — and matches the most promising ideas with contributors, funds and guidance. For more information, visit the a href=https://wiki.mozilla.org/drumbeatDrumbeat site/a./p ppMozilla is also a href=https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/organizerslooking for local partners and leaders/a to help them engage the global community of people passionate about keeping the web vibrant and open./p pa href=http://www.aspirationtech.org/blog/aspiration_partnering_mozilla_global_drumbeat_event_initiativeread more/a/p

div class=eventlabelDates: /label 10 March, 2010 - 12 March, 2010br //div

pAspiration was delighted to design and facilitate a focus group for a href=http://craigslistfoundation.org/Craigslist Foundation/a#8217;s latest project, code-named What Works, in San Francisco at the end of January. The goal of the project is to assess the degree to which stories and ideas about successful community change can help others achieve success in their own communities. And to the extent that they do, to then investigate how to better get that information distributed where it needs to go. The agenda addressed topics including what motivates people to share their success stories, which organizations are already doing work in related areas, and what audiences and communities might be most in need of this kind of improved information flow./p pParticipating organizations included a href=http://www.bushfound.org/Bush Foundation/a, a href=http://www.causecast.org/Causecast/a, a href=http://www.craigslist.org/Craigslist.org/a, a href=http://www.ibm.comIBM/a, a href=http://www.google.org/Google.org/a, a href=http://www.openplans.org/The Open Planning Project/a, a href=http://www.pacefunders.orgPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement/a, a href=http://www.wikimedia.orgWikimedia Foundation/a, a href=http://www.wiserearth.org/WiserEarth/a, as well as social media sensei a href=http://www.bethkanter.orgBeth Kanter/a, Fellow at the a href=http://www.packard.orgPackard Foundation/a./p pa href=http://www.aspirationtech.org/blog/craigslist_foundation_and_aspiration_host_focus_group_knowledge_sharing_neighborhoods_and_local_communitiesread more/a/p

div class=eventlabelDates: /label 8 February, 2010 - 9 February, 2010br //div

pAspiration was delighted to deliver another webinar in a href=http://www.techsoup.org/TechSoup/a#8217;s most excellent a href=http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webinars/amp;ei=_gZQS-rULciXtgfCr5GtDAamp;sa=Xamp;oi=nshcamp;resnum=1amp;ct=resultamp;cd=1amp;ved=0CAoQzgQoAAamp;usg=AFQjCNFjegWDmFBuvrQK_7C2AaXpRl3BQQwebinar series/a, entitled a href=https://cc.readytalk.com/r/j4pc9fjl4w6jIntegrating Social Media into Your Website/a./p pThe webinar was offered twice, on January 19th and February 4th./p pIt was also picked for a href=http://charityhowto.com/webinar_info.php?vid=52republishing by CharityHowto.com/a./p h2Webinar Overview/h2 pMore and more organizations are benefiting from using social media tools like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter in their online communications. While the tools can be relatively straightforward to learn and adopt, many organizations struggle with how to effectively align messaging and communications across their online channels./p pThis webinar will focus on best practices for integrating social media into organizational websites, including basic nuts-and-bolts changes to web page templates and enhancements to contact, staff, and email sign-up pages. Effective and simple processes for coordinating various channels and maximizing traffic between them will be explained. In addition, a range of contrasts will be drawn describing the different natures and uses of the respective channels, and methods for measuring how different channels are driving traffic to one another will be presented./p pa href=http://www.aspirationtech.org/blog/integrating_social_media_your_websiteread more/a/p

div class=eventlabelDates: /label 3 February, 2010 - 4 February, 2010br //div

div class=eventlabelDate: /label 8 January, 2010br //div

pHot off the presses, our a href=http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/308794/55a14739e5/173/b50bcabf5a/end-of-year newsletter/a is yours for the clicking. In this edition:/p ul lia href=http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/308794/55a14739e5/173/b50bcabf5a/#devsummitNonprofit Software Dev Summit Caps a Rich Year of Events/a/li lia href=http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/308794/55a14739e5/173/b50bcabf5a/#eadvocacyeAdvocacy Mentoring and Capacity Building Enters 4th year/a/li lia href=http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/308794/55a14739e5/173/b50bcabf5a/#answrHelp Us Test the Answr Platform/a/li lia href=http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/308794/55a14739e5/173/b50bcabf5a/#opentransNew Aspiration Book: Open Translation Tools/a/li lia href=http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/308794/55a14739e5/173/b50bcabf5a/#partnersDoing Our Part to Create Better Tools and Resources/a/li /ul pAnd if you didn#8217;t receive the newsletter by email, please consider a href=http://www.aspirationtech.org/subscribe joining our mailing list/a. It#8217;s low-volume and targeted at people who care about improving the state of software for social change./p pa href=http://www.aspirationtech.org/blog/aspiration_december_2009_newsletter_outread more/a/p

pAspiration was giddy happy to be invited to present the latest, greatest version of our #8220;What Should A Web Site Cost#8221; a href=https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/download/schedule/imnj43e50pilslideware/a on a href=http://www.techsoup.org/TechSoup/a#8217;s December Webinar./p pThe online event was attended by over 200 great folks who posed excellent questions and comments. You can check out the a href=http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=72pmdaaudio from the webinar/a, as well as the a href=https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=uiv0xh2uepkzresource list of great web site implementors and designers/a./p pThanks to Kami Griffiths at TechSoup for inviting us on over!/p pa href=http://www.aspirationtech.org/blog/what_should_web_site_costread more/a/p

div class=eventlabelDates: /label 18 November, 2009 - 20 November, 2009br //div