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Join us for a free webinar hosted by TechSoup Account Management Specialists to learn how faith-based organizations can take advantage of product donation programs through TechSoup. On August 19 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern) Damon Horn and Bruce Ackley will lead an online seminar that will assist your organization with TechSoup registration, qualification, and inform you about eligibility for donations. If your organization is religious or faith-based you will learn tips on registering your organization properly, what documents will be required for you to be qualified quickly, ...

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Adina Levin has an absorbing post this week on the limits of Facebook for community organizing: In Facebook, if you don't know someone already, you might come across them in conversations in the discussion thread started by a friend, or the page of an institution that you "like." But you then have no good way of finding more about them, and gradually making their acquaintance, since many public profiles are quite sparse, and stream that really gives you a picture of the person is often locked down for privacy. And (at least I find) that it is awkward to address someone you don't know, even if ...

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We announced the Paperless Choice Challenge back in May on the TechSoup Blog but thought it worth reiterating because the deadline for both voting and submissions is approaching on September 15, 2010. The Paperless Choice Challenge will award four $5,000 awards. Paperless Choice is a program of Catalog Choice and funded by the Overbrook Foundation. It's significant on two counts. It promotes resource reduction in one of the areas in which nonprofits are resource hogs: direct mail. And it also promotes a way of working advocated by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine's new book, The Networked ...

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