Lots of do-good bloggy "Days" coming up!

Blog Day
August 31st
A day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers,"preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." For more info. go to www.blogday.org.

 

 

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:

If you have an event or conference that you think would be of interest to the NetSquared Community, email us at net2@techsoup.org, or post about it yourself on the NetSquared Community Blog (posting guidelines and instructions are available on our Share page).

Here are a few we thought might interest you:

Join us at NewsTools2008, April 30-May 3, at Yahoo! Sunnyvale, a three-day conceptual mashup where journalists will work with technologists to create new tools for journalism that matters. The U.S. news media is changing fast. Strip away the legacy platforms, and what remains of journalism that is needed to support participatory democracy and community? At NewsTools2008, we'll ground you on the way news has been manufacturered until now, we'll overview how technology is disrupting the old ways; then we'll ask you to work for up to two days with journalists to build new systems that engage with all the best tools avaiable. The result we seek: The launch of at least a half-dozen new machine-based systems that move journalism outside of the traditional boxes and into our participatory, crowdsource culture.

See: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv
or: http://www.newstools2008.org

Registration discounts and stipends availble for day-trippers . . . email for details: Bill Densmore, the media giraffe project at umass amherst
413-458-8001 / densmore@mediagiraffe.org

Speaking of What is the Return on Investment of the Social Web for Nonprofits, TechSoup, NetSquared's "mother" org, is having a free, 2-day online event, Making An Impact: Web Stats for Nonprofits, on October 16 & 17 in the Web Building Forum.

Join Yann Toledano, Internet Marketing Consultant and host of TechSoup's Web Building Forum, and Malin Coleridge, TechSoup's Senior Web Analyst, as they explore how to use Web statistics effectively on a shoestring budget. They'll explain key Web metrics and why they matter for your nonprofit. In addition, they'll discuss how to use your statistical data to improve performance through testing and optimization.

If you live near Florida, check out the "TechLeaders for Social Innovators" workshop at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on October 17.

Speakers include:

Our own, Marnie Webb, Co-CEO, TechSoup

TechSoup, our mother organization, is having a free online event, Disaster Planning, Recovery and IT for Your Nonprofit, May 9-11 in its Tech Planning Community Forum. No registration is required.

Topics will include:
• Safety issues in disaster preparedness.
• Reducing the risk of a disaster.
• Disaster planning and IT.
• Offline measures you can take to prevent a data disaster.