John Kenyon - Nonprofit Technology Educator & Strategist

Third Annual East Bay Policy Day

Next Wednesday April 29th from 8:30am - 2pm I will be participating in a great SF Bay Area event put on by the CBO Center:

"Can You Hear Us Now - Nonprofit Advocacy in the Age of Obama"

The event includes:

The Local Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

A panel discussion with:
Jean Ross, executive director, California Budget Project
Supervisor Susan Bonilla, Contra Costa County, District IV
Alex Briscoe, Deputy Director, AC Health Services
Moderated by David Glover, OCCUR

My session "Using Web 2.0 to Educate and Advocate" and

"Advocacy 201" with Nancy Amidei, Executive Director, Civic Engagement Project

Nancy will also be the keynote speaker at lunch.

This event is a bargain at $65 - and there is a discount for multiple registrants from an org!

Space is limited so REGISTER TODAY.

I look forward to seeing you there!  

Penguin Day SF - All About Open Source (SOLD OUT!)

One of the best facilitators and organizers in the nonprofit world, Allen Gunn (aka Gunner) will be hosting Aspiration's Penguin Day San Francisco on Saturday April 25th. I will be participating and facilitating a discussion around CiviCRM and Salesforce.

At $35 for a full day, this is one of the best bargains in nonprofit technology education.

Sessions will include:

* Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
* Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications
* Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices
* Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools
* Introduction to Linux
* Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems
* Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress
* Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal
* Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics
* CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences?
* Increasing Access with Community Broadband in SF
* Learnings from Google Summers of Code
* Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project
* Healthy and Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
* Helping Techies and Non-Techies Communicate and Cooperate
* Creative Commons And Open Content
* Free and Open Source Firewalls

Penguin Day San Francisco is happening at the Odd Fellows Hall at 7th and Market Street, in the heart of downtown.

For more information and to register go to www.penguinday.org

I hope to see you there!

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