See the video we created to promote our project!

Please vote for S.M.A.R.T. Voice which will help improve the experience of English Language Learners in the D.C. Public School system. Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcSQl80RPw&feature=player_embedded

Hi everyone! I wanted to introduce our entry into the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge for immigrant youth to use technology to improve their public education system in Washington, D.C. I hope that you will consider voting for our project, and good luck to the other 89 contestants! S.M.A.R.T. is the D.C. Language Access Coalition(DCLAC)’s initiative on education and aims to educate, train and empower limited and non-English proficient (LEP/NEP) and ELL (English Language Learner) youth in advocacy, community organizing...

Changents is hosting a contest with P&G Give Health calling for bloggers to share why they are clean water Change Agents. What's in it for bloggers? A few great things:

Netroots Wisconsin is the Wisconsin regional conference of Netroots Nation.  It will take place on Sept. 25, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin. Netroots Wisconsin is the gathering place for Netroots and others in Wisconsin using the Internet to improve life in the Dairy State.  Unite the Cheddarsphere!

Details and on-line registration are available at the web site.

Ashoka and the Lemelson Foundation invite bloggers covering the intersection of technology, invention and social change to be the official blogger at the upcoming Tech 4 Society conference in Hyderabad, India where 100 Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows will be attending, in addition to other changemakers, to share ideas and projects that are changing the world through technology and invention.

Is your organization looking to expand your reach and communicate more directly with your supporters and community? Are you considering starting a blog to help you do this? Join Becky Wiegand from TechSoup during this free webinar as she interviews Allyson Kapin, blogger for Care2's nonprofit marketing blog Frogloop, and Jason Griffey, who literally wrote the book on blogging for libraries to discuss the ins and outs of starting a blog for your organization. From considerations like which tool to use, how much staff time to commit, whether volunteers and interns should help, best practices, and how to launch your blog into the blogosphere, we'll discuss all the basics of how to get started. Register today!

Happy Holidays, N2 community!!

I've been hush-hush for a while because the team over here has been discussing a critical issue - what do we need to be doing in order to get you all engaged a whole lot more?  The N2 blog is not churning up the type of engagement we had hoped to see and we're scratching our heads wondering why.  We're providing content - perhaps its not what you want or need?  We're focusing that content on social media strategies - perhaps we're missing the mark?  Essentially - we're rethinking our strategy and we want you, the community, to guide us.

If you're even remotely into social media and have yet to read (or hear of) Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble, Shel Israel (and the host of other authors who played a part in bringing the book to life), then you have some catching up to do.  Published in 2006 about the way blogging was changing businesses (and with tremendous foresight regarding how blogging would continue to change business), the book is still exceptionally relevant to business managers who not only want to grasp just what the &%*$ social media means, but want to see that meaning in context...especially a successful context.

Today is Blog Action Day!  This year, the focus of Blog Action Day is poverty - it's a day when thousands of bloggers all focus on one issue with the goal to raise awareness, inspire action, and shake up the blogosphere.

What's this all about?