Agenda Brainstorm Sticky Notes

Rural Areas

• What's the best tech suit of tools to overcome the “digital divide” rural communities with only mobile phones, etc.?
• How to spread technology to rural areas?
• Is traditional radio still relevant? If so, how?

Promotory Marketing

• How can we make the web “smaller” e.g. locally relevant?
• How do I promote my content?
• How do I improve visibility of my organization via technology & in-person?
• How do I speak to constituents and potential interested parties to promote my work?
• How do I get my video to go viral?

Mobile

• What developments are happening in pro-poor mobile technology?
• What mobile apps are helpful for NPOs?
• How can SMS/ text messaging be used for campaigns?

Project Management

• What are the best tools for managing multiple projects in an intuitive, visual way?
• What is basecamp & how to use it?
• How can I go about developing a tech plan that is fully integrated into our model of advocacy & growth?
• What are some low-cost, easy to use PROJECT MANAGEMENT tools? (besides microsoft products...)
• How can I best plan for long-term maintenance of my wordpress, but partially custom coded website?
• How do low-capacity orgs do online comms effectively.

Contact Managment

• A contact management system that is easy to use, go off/online & not break the bank?
• How do we balance technology-based organizing with face-to-face organizing?
• How do they compliment each other?
• How do you encourage amplifying your message thru your network?
• How do you choose a CRM?
• Is there a free/cheaper replacement for SugarSync to back up and sync my work & home computers? both macs
• How does Salesforce & CiviCRM differ in terms of support? (what are key differences?)
• We need to implement a better contact management system

Open Source

• What are reasonable ways for nonprofits to adopt open source software NOW?
• What alternatives are there to corporate software/ hardware?
• How can we reduce our reliance on corporate tech that might not have our best interests in mind?

Security & Privacy

• How can nonprofits assess & respond to their security & privacy risks?
• What are best practices regarding security for data & website?
• Net Security: Where to take action/ where to know its no big deal?
• assessing your organization's security risk
• How do we secure our online assets so that there is security in case of disaster, theft, etc.?
• How much info. about your organization should you put out there?
• Intersections of online surveillance and real time (security camera) surveillance
• How do I privatize/ secure personal information?
• How can we safely discuss piracy with teens & adults
• How to talk about scary tech and security issues with out inciting fear

Resources

• What services do people need? (Both tech and design services.)
• Where to find good resources for cheap tech?
• What tech tools can convey complex info to non-experts, replace or substitute for dense text instruction
• How to find a good balance between exploring new tech and maintaining your current tech tools & platforms?
• Whats being done in low income computer training?
• What blogs/websites do organizations use as their newsfeed?
• Is there a place where nonprofits can share resources?
• How can we make effective online resources for nonprofits?

Outreach

• How do we encourage wider adoption of social media tools with people who don't see the value?
• What are the basics that an under-resourced community org. should know in developing a tech outreach strategy? (tech communication 101)
• How do you build a following for nonprofit profiles i.e. twitter, instagram..
• How do you reach community memebers through tech who do not have readily available access to it?

Mission Oriented Tech

• How much technology should be part of your overall mission?

Time Management

• How to get your 40 hr work week and still have a presence on social media?
• How do you find the time to do AB testing, analytics for email, web & social media campaigns?
• How to do an event like this in 6 hours?

Audience

• How are other people navigating the difference between organizational & personal websites?
• What are cool things to do on a personal/social justice site?

Youth Programs

• How can youth media organizations keep youth involved?
• How can youth media groups in different areas work together? and communicate?
• How do other programs get youth engaged in “our” program
• How do you keep kids involved after a project?
• What makes a successful youth media group?
• How hard is it to file a freedom of information request?

Fundraising

• How do various community organizations find grants?
• How to find long-term funding streams?
• How important is kickstarter/indiegogo?
• What are some good RSS feeds nonprofits need to get on?
• How do I finance a complex website in phases/stages?
• Funding for my project/cause?
• Comparison of crowdfunding platforms?
• What funding resources are available for my project/cause?
• New and inventive ways to fundraise for what you're passionate about

Online Data Organization

• How do you determine what outlet to use for different types of content?
• How are organizations using web analytics?
• How can we integrate silos of information across different departments and functions into a single system deeply and easily?
• Alternatives to cloud based storage?

Fundraising Technology

• How do you do online strategic grassroots fundraising?
• How can I start a crowd funding campaign?
• Whats the best tool for a crowdfunding campaign?
• How can youth media organizations gain money and financial support? Long term? Small, isolated community
• How much should we invest into media equipment/software? why?
• How can nonprofits engage more staff & members in content strategy? (websites, social media, emails, etc.)
• How can my organization pay for tech/website help when we have trouble paying our rent?
• Is there a way for prospective grantees to apply for grants online and they still get a copy of their submitted grant and you get an easy to read format for your grant review board? (which also reads paper application)

Evaluation

• Tools to evaluate the effectiveness of your outreach
• Social enterprises will innovate how we create social justice movements
• What are the ongoing needs of activiists and nonprofits?
• How does your organization measure their success of your goal or mission? (i.e. are we helping the homeless?)

Funding

• What can the federal government do to support nonprofits or remove barriers to success?
• How can an organization in a small, isolated community gain support from other areas?
• How can we improve communication and sharing of information between governement and community organizations?
• How should/can large technology companies help nonprofits?
• How govt & community organizations can work better together?

Data

• What digital tools are available to “hyperlocalize” large data sets?
• What digital tools are best for policy advocacy at the local level?
• How do you determine what is worth keeping and when cleaning up your documents/files?
• Make time and sense of analytics (google & social media) and knowing what to do with it?
• What are best practices for “migrating” data bases?
• How do you move from a local constituent database to a cloud based CRM? budget? considerations? pros/cons?
• Where can I get support for using ACCESS in my org?

Collaboration

• How to democratize technoloyg creation?
• What's a good online collaboration platform should I use for multi-lingual, statewide, grassroots coalition?
• How can my dissertation on climate change policy and environmental advocacy in CA be useful to activists?
• What are the ways to measure engagement in our network?
• How can my San Juaquin Valley environmental-justice news feed & archive be more useful to EJ organizations/advocates?
• Best way to work together virtually – tools, etc?
• How to connect local & global perspectives?
• What are the best ways to keep our events attendees engaged after events?
• How to get such energy flowing in an online conference?
• Alternatives to nonprofit as an organizational structure
• How to bring marginalized communities into mainstream? e.g. deaf-blind cognitively challenged

Social Media

• How do I justify to my boss the importance of social media?
• How can we use social networks to push social justice media campaigns?
• How much time should we invest in social media with purpose of courting partners?
• How much time should I dedicate to social media?
• How do you expand more on social media & make it more collaborative between partners, and sponsors, etc?
• When multiple people are in charge of your social media accounts, how can you be sure they are all on the same message? branding?
• How important is twitter?
• How to publish with exceptions so I don't have to create separate social accounts
• How do we moderate social media & negative feedback/messages?
• How to manage social media and still do all the other work?
• How can organizations help youth with literacy & democracy while using social media?
• How do we effectively use social media without wasting time?
• How to incorporate social media effectively in an organization?
• How to maximize your social media work for on the ground effect?
• How do you get your staff invested in using social media?
• How to effectively use social media to reach out to youth?
• Finding efficient ways for updating social media.

Listening Dashboards

• What's the best way to track issues that I'm interested in online now that Netvibes doesn't work as well with Googles RSS alerts?
• What technology will make e-newsletters more user-friendly & efficient?
• How do you get posted in the iTunes store?
• How do we make sure our digital strategies are conducive to serving our communities?
• How can we embrace new tech without jeopardizing jobs?

Software & Tech Support

• How can we get reliable & affordable tech support?
• I want to share about techsoup.org and raft.net & how to get in-kind donations
• What frustrates you (nonprofits) about your techies/ your tech support?

Volunteers

• What are strategies for organizing volunteers?
• How do we make using volunteers meaningful & effective?
• What is the best way to manage and maintain volunteer support?
• How can I effectively create & manage an unpaid internship program to increase staff resources?
• Can techhelp recruit, track and run efficiently?
• How can I find reliable volunteers to do tech work?
• What's the best way to get tech volunteers?

Web Hosting & ISPs

• What are the best free website hosting?
• Ideal Service Providers? What are ISPS? Internet Service Providers...

Online Tools

• How to create an online tutorial for basic computer learners? $0 budget?
• What are tools that we can use to talk between board members or volunteers using technology?
• How do you effectively use search engines for nonprofit resources?

Web Development

• What are the best practices for custom coding that are least likely to break a wordpress updates all the time?
• How do I supervise/hire a coder to do the wordpress updates well.

Bilingual Sites

• What are best-practices in building bilingual websites?

Websites

• I've got a wordpress site... what do I do next?
• What's possible to do for free, in terms of making a website? (free like beer or puppies?)
• Where do you find a starter kit for social media & website mgmt?

User-friendly & accessible websites

• What are best-practices for creating user-friendly websites?
• How do you change a flash website into a useable website?
• How to get started on your web project and how to develop a budget for it?

Blogs

• How can I make my blog a general resource for nonprofits?
• What type of info would you want from a nonprofit centered blog?

Content Management

• Should we use a wordpress site or have someone build something just for us?
• What website platform is easiest to keep up for a small nonprofit?
• What are the best content management systems for nonprofits?

Storytelling

• How do we use data to effectively communicate our message and reach our target audience?
• I have a lot of compiled data. How do I present it visually on a map and or an analysis platform?
• How do I promote activism through ant?
• What are best practices to capture/document institutional memory? (log-ins, passwords, etc.)
• How do groups communicate graphically across platforms?
• How to utilize video storytelling more effectively?
• Storytelling best practices in the digital age?
• How do I craft an online presence that stands our and draws people to my event/performance?