Aaron Pava's blog

The 2012 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off in San Francisco next week. As always, we're excited to be in such good company, surrounded my thousands of non-profits and organizations committed to making the world a better place.

Here are a few sessions and locations you can connect with our team:

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Last week I had the honor to speak at DrupalCon Denver on how international NGOs are leveraging Drupal for social change.

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Living and working in the Bay Area is extraordinary and full of contradictions. On one hand, many of our friends and the people we interact with day-to-day are largely defining society's primary technology systems. They work at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Zynga and nearly every technology and service we regularly use. And, by way of serendipity or coincidence, we are also surrounded by some of the world's most renown teachers in mindfulfuness, yoga and spiritual practice. On any given day you can practice at more than a hundred local yoga studios or from an endless number of workshops and classes.

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I am incredibly honored to have been selected to speak at the upcoming DrupalCon Denver on the topic of International NGOs Leveraging Drupal for Social Change. 

As part of the amazing support in the Drupal Community, all presenters have been requested to attend (or watch recordings of) webinars on how to give good presentations, led by Emma Jane Hogbin of Design to Theme.

Below is a summary of the two hour-long videos, which I initially intended as personal notes, but later realized others might find useful as well.

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Every year our team pulls together a "short-list" of our favorite upcoming conferences and events. While it's not intended to be a complete list of all events in the non-profit/social-change space (for that, see Socialbrite's Superguide), it does represent a significant portion of organizations most aligned with CivicActions' social mission.

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The video below is a demonstration of our recent work using two open source software platforms to build native iPhone and Android apps for the InterAction Forum conference. 

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How big has social media grown in the last few years?

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A Big Week

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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."  -Stephen Covey

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CivicActions was honored to once again host the Ignite Reception at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Ignite is a presentation style where participants have exactly five minutes to speak on a subject, accompanied by 20 auto-rotating slides displayed for 15 seconds each. Special thanks to all the amazing presenters and Master of Ceremonies Gregory Heller for coordinating this amazing night!

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