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Wrap up on the 2.0 Nonprofit Conference

While few of the concepts at the 2.0 nonprofit conference were new to me (Use twitter! uh, ok.); it was good to see where other nonprofits were and what the nonprofit leaders in the space were doing, and what the lessons they had learned were. read more »

Behind the Wire: How To build your own news portal

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ServiceWire.org is a refreshed version of a news system that's been part of YSA's servenet.org toolset for years. In fact, when servenet.org was launch in the mid-nineties (1996 in fact) its motto was "Our Content in Youth Info" - a few years ahead of its time in terms of "Web 2.0" concepts or peer-generated content.

In late 2008 I decided it was time to bring ServiceWire up to date with current technologies. It still got a smattering of news and press release submissions from the field, but it was no longer the source of news and knowledge about what was happening in the service movement.

At its heart, ServiceWire is very simple - it takes content from the service field and collects it all in one place, making it easy to follow, comment on, and explore trends.

Read on to learn all about how it works, how you can take greater advantage of it, and how you can make your own version of it! read more »

Hackers in Service

A Facebook Hackathon

What do you think of when you see the word 'hacker'? If you're like most people, you think of an individual or group rapidly typing obscure code in a dark room stealing information from a system that doesn't belong to them. read more »

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