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Salsa, con Sabór: Reflections on the Salsa Conference 2010

(Thanks to Ilyse Kazar, technology consultant for NPOs and educational organizations at Adept Digital Evolution, for sharing her thoughts as a participant in the 2010 Salsa Community Conference!)

Tech conferences are for nerdy computer mavens, right? Hundreds of high-I.Q., awkward folks milling about in their propeller beanies, salivating over software and code, eating Twinkies and drinking Jolt, right? Over the course of my tech consulting career (which began with an "IBM clone" that would have been at home in Fred and Wilma's house) I have been to quite a few tech conferences and expos. And in actuality, I have discovered that people who work in technology are a fascinating and diverse and creative lot. I have made solid friendships lasting decades with many colleagues -- who are also involved in everything from making music to helping in Haiti after the earthquake.

So, when I headed to D.C. for my first Salsa conference this summer, the event was slated to be stacked up in my mind against memories of some very well-done, informative and fun "devcons" I had attended in the past, that were populated by an interesting crowd. The bar was set high! And ....

(insert drum roll here....)

In every way, the Salsa Conference of 2010 was the best I have ever attended!

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12:56 PM Jul 26, 2010 - 54 comments permalink

Salsa Weekly Highlight: Empower your supporters with mySalsa

(From this week's Weekly Highlight email. Click here to sign up to receive it in your inbox every week!)

Greetings!

It's the "Salsa Weekly Highlight," your quick hit on what's new in Salsa to help get the most out of your online program. As always, you can find plenty more news, updates, and conversation throughout the week on SalsaCommons.org.

This week, online organizing got a little bit easier. Now, you can put the power of the Salsa organizing platform directly in the hands of your supporters.

mySalsa is a cutting-edge platform that wraps all Salsa's core features into an easy-to-use community portal empowering your people to connect with others and to:

host events
start groups
post updates
fundraise
... and more!

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07:28 AM Jul 23, 2010 - 55 comments permalink

Salsa Labs at Netroots Nation

Netroots Nation 2010 is this week in Las Vegas and the Salsa Labs team will be there in full force.

Netroots Nation is a gathering of some of the best and brightest minds in the progressive community and we're really excited to take part in discussions about new and emerging trends in organizing and advocacy campaigns.

If you are a Salsa/DIA/WFC user and are going to be in Vegas, make sure you sign up for our Twitter list to more easily connect with other members of the Salsa family. You can sign up for the list here:

Salsa Market director - Ali Savino - will be hosting a meet-up for the developers/coder/hacker crowd at Netroots as well. Details can be found below or RSVP on Facebook.

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03:26 PM Jul 21, 2010 - 66 comments permalink

Salsa Weekly Highlight: Grow your list with the Change.org Salsa Market app

(From this week's Weekly Highlight email. Click here to sign up to receive it in your inbox every week!)

Greetings!

How would your email list look with a few thousand -- maybe tens of thousands -- more names?

This week, I wanted to share an application available in the Salsa Market to help build your list ... one of the core needs of any online program. If you're still unsure whether the Market can help your organization, the change.org application is a great place to start.

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05:09 PM Jul 15, 2010 - 1 comments permalink

It's Third Thursday!

Third Thursday is upon us and we're getting ready for an exciting day ahead.

At 4 PM today, Salsa Labs' training specialist Trina Zahller will delve into strategies for analyzing and organizing your support data. Then Royelen Boykie of Food and Water Watch shares her strategies for taking those supporter relationships to the next level! It all happens live at our offices:

Salsa Labs
1700 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington DC 20009
(That's just two blocks up from the north exit of the DuPont Circle metro stop. We're right above the Starbuck's on the corner of Connecticut and R.)

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01:45 PM Jul 15, 2010 - 2 comments permalink

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