The August NetSquared Cambridge (UK) event was led by Dave Bower, a software developer who is the driving force behind Lourish.com. Lourish is a newly launched website designed to facilitate swapping of home-grown fruit and veg in the local community.

This year's going to be different! Tackle 2009 head on by putting these five basic resolutions into practice and kiss your non-profit office headaches of 2008 goodbye.

"New Year's Resolutions" Original Photo by Flickr user Ian Turton, CC Licensed

1) I will back up my computer every two weeks.

I have returned from the Millennials Changing America Tour and aside from being a bit tired from it all and the suffering of a minor bronchial infection, I am feeling good about the whole ordeal. When planning the trip, which took me to over 30 cities across the country, I thought that it would be interesting to set up the majority of my housing in each city by way of Couchsurfing so that I could save money and spend time meeting people in my downtime as well as when talking with people on the road.

July 15th, 12 Noon Eastern time, the Chronicle of Philanthropy will host an online event, Building Your Online Presence on a Tight Budget. 

Beth Kanter and Jonathon Colman will facilitate the discussion.  Here are their bios from the Chronicle of Philanthropy site:

Before committing resources to particular milestones & objectives for a fundraising campaign that employs groups, events, and applications on Facebook, OpenSocial, and other platforms, test (AB testing) the relative appeal of various assets (themes, messages, actors, stories, text, images, video, wikis, audio, speakers) and tools for your campaign on a representative sample of your target audience/engaged membership.

Some set of elements fit together and perform as a whole better than others. Find out which combinations create the best results.

Once testing is complete, estimate: