Agenda Mind Map

Grant Funding

• How to apply and find grants
• Help with funding development to do projects we want to do
• How can groups raise money or get grants specifically for their tech projects
• Interested in grant org. software
• How to engage partners to financing support your work?

Security

• How to keep track of my passwords?
• How can we make PGP encryption more accessible+common for activists+organizers?
• Best practicers to make your info/data secure
• How do you build confidence in mass communications?
• Help understand privacy/security issues for nonprofits?
• How to do an organizational data risk assesment in 7 easy steps
• Security program using technology for seniors
• Maintaining confidentiality and promoting nonprofit. how?

Email

• Best practices around "inbox zero"
• Mobile email
• Effective use of google apps
• Understanding email connection settings

Organizing

• Best practices for training our people to do events
• Organizing a conference like the tech fest
• How can we better document our successes with tech. sharing our stories
• What technology do youth use for organizing efforts
• When are people motivated to take action? what time of day? what day of the week?
• How do you use collaboration as a foundation rather than just repeating work?
• Distraction vs. valuable investment
• What are the best practices for an outreach campaign?
• Using technology for organzing/advococy
• Online consensus building, how is it done and who should use them
• How to engage our center's youth (13-19) better technology
• Strategies for replicating on-the-ground organizing on the web to expand reach and guage impact
• How do we grow campaigns around taboo/controversial topics?
• How do keep people engaged? what needs to be recorded?
• What are the best approaches to using tech in higher ed? (hybrid/online/f-2-f)

Content

• How to justify brevity to someone who is verbose?
• How do we create useful+dynamic content without the bells and whistles?
• How do you deal with the constant stress of creating new, quality content?
• How valuable is information gained through crowd-sourcing?
• Guidelines for appropriate posting regarding the work

Fundraising on Social media/Facebook

• How can I use SM to help turn donors into fundraisers?
• How can I use SM to find people in the community who are "hubs" for philanthropy?
• How do nonprofits fundraise w/ SM and without capacity?
• How do we raise money for tech projects?
• Tappping into online, ind. donor base
• What is the best way to use facebook ads to drive traffic to cause page+content to donors/fundraisers?
• I have a FB page-- does anyone care? and how can I make it available and clickworthy?
• What are good alternatives to network for good online donations?
• Kickstarter and nonprofits?

Social Media

• What is the return on investment for social media?
• How to create a better online presence?
• How do different departments use SM without overwhelming the audience?
• How does one create a SM campaign?
• Rules for using SM as nonprofits
• How can you best use each different SM platform? What are they best for?
• How much punctuation fo you need on Twitter?
• How do you justify the time investing in SM in relation to returns?
• What creative strategies are use to gain new likes/follows and engage existing users?
• Google Analytics for website+ SM Analytics
• How can nonprofits with similar missions connect to eachother?
• Is there a (good) nonprofit tech blog or zine or infohub?
• I want to learn more about social network asset mapping and tools that support it

Learning

• What are the best practices for self-divided learning to support a NPTech practice
• learning from other people's mistrakes
• how to incorporate popular education into online tools?
• what are non-tech options that you find useful?

Capacity Building

• How to best start & support a trust network Nptech capacity builders?
• how to assign staff roles in technology & communications?
• How can nonprofits integrate data connection & analysis with limited capacity?
• tech capacity building
• bulding internal capacity around technology-skills, exploration, structures
• how can we use tech to further our mission? (more members, more donors)

Overwhelm work/life balance

• How to make our jobs sustainable and not to burn out?
• I'm overwhelmed when do I have time to learn on research new software

Collaboration

• What information do we need to build communities? (ie. And not need)
• How to create authentic connections between two distant countries?
• Cross-pollinate and engage online w/ other orgs
• non-profit production promotion?
• How do non-profits store material?
• Non-profit networking
• How do we build positive + productive relationships w/ local governments and nonprofits to enact pos. change?
• How to connect community organizing efforts between the U.S and communities outside of the U.S

Networks

• How can NGOs grow their networks?
• What technologies (if any) can facilitate collaboration?

Staff Buy-in (+use) of Tech

• How do we get staff buy-in when we make changes to their tech eco system (network drives, operating systems, etc)
• How do we offer training to staff for for productivity software?
• How can we make IT more integrated in the strategy of our programs
• What is the first step in making an org tech-friendly for staff?
• How to Sway/Convince high-level leadership tomake tech & website a priority?
• How can I best integraate a remote office with our main office?
• How can my organization provide (or other organization) user training/tech training?

Tech. Resources & Training

• Training aud tools for managing information and data for non-profits
• What resources, trainings, etc. are available to nonprofits to aid webiste development?
• How to bridge the discomfort of state to use new tools?
• How do we train on staff to get on the same page w/ now technology in easy & quick ways?
• I want an online inventory system to check in & out equipment
• I want to become better voised in basic web design
• More efficient tools for overworked, underresourced nonprofits
• Where can I get tech training resources for free/cheap?
• How to make online actions more meaningful? (both for constiment lay term carring and policy change)

Aspiration

• The who, what, why of Aspiration
• What was one of the campaigns Aspiration created? And what did the campaign accomplish?

Tech online advice for capacity builders

• What are the best practises wizdom for starting a NPTECH biz that servers nonprofits?
• What are the big tech challenges that face N.P in this room?

Measurement

• Measuring outcomes
• What are alternatives to Google analytics, How do you use them?
• Using log frames for monitoring and evaluation
• How social justice groups access data for campaigns and/or organizing efforts
• What is the best platform/source for Demographic data
• Linking research data, to campaigns and change work

Management

• How do I do project management better?
• How to manage technology projects?
• How can we use technology to bridge geographic and demographic and economic distances?
• I'd like to better understand rolling out project management software while we ace figuring out our workflow with many projects?
• Project management tools and strategies
• Is there technology that helps with internal management?

App/Mobile

• How to create mobile app to create a tool without knowing code
• App or program to do daily sign-in for youth program
• What resources are available for app development or design?
• Mobile apps
• Mobile app training/GUI platform youth & seniors

Newsletter/Press releases

• Best newsletter practices
• How to write a press releases
• How to write complete sentences
• How do non-profits utilize free advertising to reach teens

CMS

• What is WordPress & when to use it
• What is Drupal and when t use it
• How do non-profits choose a content management system?
• WordPress: Simple way to integrate logins for an org; Transition to self-hosted

Responsive web design

• Responsive web design
• What should be static info vs. Dynamic?

Tech Tools

• Where to find tech tools for non-profits? e.g. *Trainings/supplies/etc.
• Open-source smartphones – FireFox OS
• Should nonprofits use private or open systems?
• How do we make decisions?
• What are some new technologies folks are using and finding to be effective?
• Wiki vs Google Sites
• Developing web tools that support shared knowledge, shared process, and shared outcomes that are not over-complicated
• What tools are people using to manage communities?
• How do we better promote the use of open source in the nonprofit community?
• What calendar sharing program is most effective?
• How can nonprofits give better services to their service partners through technology?
• Is there a better solution (Open Source) then using piracy (bootleg) software?

Accessibility

• Should nonprofits use technology To reach those with limited/no access?
• Internet access ran change the world: more education, medical access, interaction
• Open Data
• What are challenges for open data?

Online mapping

• Online tools to generate custom maps
• How do non-profit groups utilize mapping technology for their work

Website

• How high of a priority are the websites of other organizations
• Critique my website design
• Why are we bulleting this website tech tool?
• Who makes decisions regarding websites at other organizations?

CRM

• Constituent realtionship management systems
• How to start a CRM database. How to choose a CRM
• What are the differences between powerbase & civicrm
• Contact management systems – how to develop + gather + store
• How are nonprofits integrating powerbase/civicrm and an advocacy tool
• Why should we (or not) use a CRM?
• Volunteen management
• Pros & cons of powerbase/civicrm
• Donor management
• Integration/tool management. Keep track of presences subscriptions. Online, etc
• Salesforce vs podid vs basecamp vs asana – with DMG
• Using powerbase, CivicCrm – How to's

Education awarness building of your non-profit

• Avoiding duplication of tech work/storytelling
• How to use tech to:
  • enhance the grad studen experience & Raise the profit of the program
  • Build & maintenance relationships w/ our community partners
  • Facilitate flied pleasant
  • prof. Development or students
  • Promote ecents to the general public

• Using tech to help us re “brand” bridge color lines

Video/Audio

• How can short videos make greater impact on our communities
• How do videographers think about producing videos with complicated messages clearly w/out losing the audience
• Audio translators → developing for rural communities who do not write or read
• To help with Health issues, issues etc
• Gathering critics for musician, a radio show, noboy submitted anything to: How do I branch art? Make it declarable to participants

Cost & vendor

• How much should a website cost
• How much should a website redesign cost?
• How should orgs and the techies that work with them handle ambitious tech projects with small budgets or tight tinninesses?
• How can orgs do tech budgeting better?
• How do you find a good tech vendor
• How to choose a vendor(tech)
• What printer should we purchase?

Ehtics

• Does everyone deserve freee access to internet?
• How do we make tech less evil?

Audiences

• What do non-profits want to read about in blogs from people who write them?
• How do we engage our target audiences thourgh technology
• How do we use technology to leverage like-minded issues
• How to make information accessible to users
• How to develop organic cooperation between an engagement & an social/ on the media
• Generell mainstream in rural technology communities

Volunteers

• How to manage a large volunteer base that can be activated indiv. Or as groups
• How to become a netwroked nonprofit with a highly engaged fan base

Visual

• visual note taking & infographics
• How to better engage for virtual meetings