Microblogs like Twitter are a great vehicle to help organize political demonstrations in countries run by corrupt governments (and an effective way to spread misinformation), but how can nonprofit organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), libraries, government programs, and other mission-based organizations really use microblogs to promote their work, increase attendance at an event, get donations or mobilize or support volunteers?

NetSquared is seeking a Drupal whiz with a deep understanding of the nonprofit technology sphere to serve as system admin and Drupal developer for the global site.

This role will require you to plan and implement new features, functions and applications in our community-driven process. Working in a fast-paced and distributed environment, you will be asked to develop engaging online tools that facilitate usability and increase participation.

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Want to help develop innovative services for changemakers around the world? We're looking for you.

There's a new position in a new program at TechSoupGlobal: we're looking for a Product Manager to oversee product development, program design and Operations for the Community-Driven Innovation program. The day-to-day focus is on developing modular features, products and services that surface the resource needs of people and organizations work for social-benefit around the world. The net-impact of the role will drive contributions to social-benefit organizations from volunteers; technology companies; funders and anyone else interested in contributing their time, technology and funds to entrepreneurial projects.

One of my projects over the last few months was to write and get approval for social media staff guidelines for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). I’m sharing them because I hope that they will be useful to other organizations who are working on similar documents. Besides: I wouldn’t have been able to write them without other organizations and companies making their’s available.

some of the ideas generated during an informal lunch discussion at CompuMentor

• everyone from Net2 should go to BrainJams for inspiration
• no matter what, be really clear in describing the sessions as techie or non-techie friendly so the audiences are appropriate.
• you'll get different audiences and different intentions. 
• techie track?
• Conference inspiration/people to talk to: Brainjams, ruckus, Planetworks, Bioneeers
• go down specific nonprofit tracks, e.g. fundraising, volunteer management, and how emerging technology.  what projects effectively use blogs to do fundraising, for instance
• where do i start managing change in my organization
• at what point do you jump to web 2.0? what are the risk factors and how do you get prepared?  what is it that mainstream adopters are not prepared to do?  among early adopters, what lessons were learned, what worked & did not?
• how do you enable early adopters to spin out these concepts within your organization.  how do you talk to your boss (or a non-adopter) about web 2.0?
• how do you talk about technology to non-techies?
• check out web2event on techsoup for some possible topics
• maybe we can try that again, casting a wider net
• value from a development perspective. how is this going to help your development director fulfill his/her goals? long run ROI. 
• good fundraising conference in oakland, very interested in technology
• it'd be really interesting to see a white paper on e-philanthropy.  tides runs these kinds of reports. 
• make sure session topics don't conflict with ntc.
• to ensure lasting impact, you could have affinity groups at the end, rather than beginning, so people can identify next actions
• presentation at end from people showing what comes next, what are people going to do as a result of this conference. 
• sign up sheets at front giving a selection of topics.  have people choose topics and base some sessions on that
• specific sessions set aside - what are the things you want to talk about today?  check ins throughout the day asking if people are getting what they want  
• breaks in-between each event are where things really happen. people are happy to get out of the building. 
• there's an awesome pub by the hotel nikko
• have people belong to different types of users, have people identified as super-users.  i'm the representative of the geeks, i'm the representative of development, i'm the rep of amateurs
• set up computers around the conference. people can work on a collaborative blog during the conference, during speakers even, and the speaker can read the blogs during speaker session and make the conversation answer people's questions.  this would also make it more accessible to people who can't attend. 
• we can do inexpensive webcasting/audiocasting with a shared whiteboard 
• combine live audio casting during presentations/discussions with live blogging from conference attendees, people at other locations and people at home, then read by speakers/attendees, for a truly interactive global discussion
• there are tons of people in techfinder who could facilitate/sponsor an event like this
• could also skype it. people can IM in questions.  you can invite some great attendees and include larger audience.