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Ms. Tenby Goes to DC to Testify About Nonprofits in Second Life

Britt Bravo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:49:48 -0400

TechSoup's Senior Manager of Online Community Development, Susan Tenby, testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The hearing's topic was, “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium." Tenby is the Founder of TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons, a virtual community for nonprofits in Second Life.

A Light on Money and Politics: MAPLight.org

Dan Newman — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:02:34 -0400

We need to worry about Congress

Lauren-Glenn Davitian — Tue, 30 May 2006 12:30:06 -0400

The intersection of technology and capitalism is the primary reason that we will continue have to work uphill to protect open access and free speech no matter what technology we are talking about. Indeed, we must remain vigilant. It is not the companies who created a new set of policies (1996 Telecom Act) that threatens access and open source -- it is CONGRESS. And we have to fight first against the undue influence telecomm companies have over Congress through CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. What do we have in response? PEOPLE POWER. So sure, we need though leaders, but we need to MOBILIZE PEOPLE POWER in defense of our consitutional rights in the "information age".

The National Nonprofit Congress: An Interview with Rick Cohen

marshallkirkpatrick — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:34:14 -0500

Rick Cohen is the Membership and Communications Associate for the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA) and is in charge of web strategy for the Nonprofit Congress. The Congress is an effort to build a grass-roots directed and unified front for the non profit sector to gain strength on the national scale. It is a new two year initiative of NCNA and the DC Central Kitchen.

Rick and I discussed the aims of the Nonprofit Congress, open source software and where the organizing cultures of both intersect.