Hi All,

We want to invite you to join us on Tuesday, May 15th from 12:00pm to 1:00pm for a no cost webinar with our very own Matt Garcia! He will talk through basics terms and uses about nonprofit technology, including answering questions like:

• Why does open source matter?
• What’s the meaning of the terms CRM and CMS?
• What are some tools that nonprofits use to communicate and collaborate?

Intro to Online Tools for Nonprofits
May 15th, 2012
Noon - 1pm
Click here to register!

Our monthly webinars are provided to support nonprofits and social justice organizations use technology more effectively for their work.

We want to hear from you! Email help@aspirationtech.org to suggest an upcoming webinar topic.

On May 7th, we flew to Long Beach to meet with the Building Healthy Communities of The California Endowment. We were introduced to the BHC Hub Staff Rene and Ana, Program Manager Jenny, and the communications committee Chris, Amelia and Sonya. Wow, what an amazing group of people!

We started the conversation about how they see technology supporting the work of the folks in Long Beach. We learned heaps about what they are doing to build a healthier community, and their goal to redefine what “health” means to them.

We look forward to supporting the empowering work they are already doing. Many thanks for the warm welcome!

Want to hear more about what BHC Long Beach is up too? Connect with them on Facebook or Twitter!

Ready or not, here May comes… ramp up your online communications this Spring with our series of Lunch Time Tech Talks.

At the San Francisco Nonprofit Tech Center, we are holding a series of no-cost workshops for nonprofits and social justice organizations to ramp up their online communications. Space is limited, so register today!

Bring your own lunch and be ready to participate.

The seminars scheduled are:

Introduction to Analytics
May 10, 2012, 12pm - 1pm

E-Newsletters for Nonprofits
May 24, 2012, 12pm - 1pm

Coordinating your Online Channels with a Publishing Matrix
May 31, 2012, 12pm - 1pm

All trainings will be held at the:

San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center
1370 Mission St, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103

Check out the training descriptions and register. We’d love to see you there!

I landed in the midst of a regional tornado warning for the 2012 Grants Managers Network Conference, where we were grateful to be invited by our friends at Mitchell Kapor Foundation to share Aspiration’s take on how Foundations think about using the so-called cloud in a session titled What Cloud Computing Can Do For You and Your Grantees.

The slides don’t fully reflect the concerns that were discussed in the session. Great questions led to back-and-forth about appropriate levels of distrust for corporate cloud storage and ulterior motives of for-profit entities providing free and cheap cloud offerings to 501c3 organizations.

A huge thanks to Tiffany Price at Kapor and the whole GMN Conference team for inviting us to be a part of the fun!

Have a look at the slideware and let me know what you think!

We have had such a great response to our Lunch Time Tech Talk training series, that we are going to offer an encore performance. We are holding a series of no-cost workshops at the SFNTC and online webinars for nonprofits and social justice organizations to ramp up their online communications. Space is limited, so register today!

Thursday Lunch Time Tech Talk SFNTC Seminars

The live seminars scheduled are:

• Coordinating your Online Communications with a Publishing Matrix
  April 5, 2012, 12pm - 1pm

• Taking Control of your Online Identity
  April 26, 2012, 12pm - 1pm

Wednesday Webinar

Webinars are held online.

• Building a Social Media Dashboard
  April 11, 2012, 11am - 12pm

We had a blast with Artspark at our San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center back in January for a meet-up and learning event to discuss and share learning around how artist and art organizations are using technology to support their work.

Get an awesome recap of the day from Artspark here: http://art-spark.org/2012/02/artspark-back-from-sf-full-of-enthusiasm-gratitude/