The Commons Community is our general membership group. This is the place for you to come to find helpful tips on using the site, read important member notifications, and ask questions and provide feedback to the site administrators.
We'll also use this space to post events and other announcements that are of interest to all members of the site.
The Next Web Conference 2007
Location
More information : http://2007.thenextweb.org/home/
SXSW Interactive
Location
National Conference for Media Reform
Location
The 2007 National Conference for Media Reform is about broadening the movement and establishing the media as a viable political issue. The conference will convene more than 2,000 activists, educators, media makers, journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens to discuss how to create a better media system.
Join Amy Goodman, Bill Moyers, Jesse Jackson, Jane Fonda, Phil Donahue, Davey D, Juan Gonzalez, FCC Commissioners Copps and Adelstein and many more for this inspiring event for anyone concerned about state of the media and interested in working for change!
2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
Location
Aspiration will be hosting the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA Feb. 21 - 23.
The 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit will be a first-of-its-kind convening to bring together the range of developers, technologists, managers, eRiders, integrators, users and other practitioners who self-identify under the umbrella of “nonprofit software development”. The event will provide an opportunity both to gather as a community and to take stock of the field, while building connections and capacity. The Summit will be hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area from February 21st to 23rd, 2007. Additional code sprints and collaborations may be scheduled in the days following the event.
2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference
Location
From the NTEN website:
The 2007 conference, Reinventing Politics: Creating Social Change From the Ground Up, will bring more than 1,000 people together for three days of connecting, learning, educating, and, so that we don't forget how much fun technology and changing the world are, playing. Collaborators, colleagues, and clients in the nonprofit and technology sectors will have the opportunity to share resources and learn about what works, what doesn't work, and what is in the works when it comes to using technology to help make the world a better place.
Community Guidelines
Community Guidelines
Adapted in part from the original guidelines on Helping.org's discussions for nonprofits, as well as TechSoup.org's subsequently developed guidelines.
While the Consultant Commons community area is intended to be a virtual space for the open exchange of ideas and experiences, we do have a few simple rules that we ask our users to abide by:
Getting started
To participate in our working groups and to create any kind of content, some prerequisites are required.
1. Please familiarize yourself with our Community Guidelines.
2. You must have a user account on Consultant Commons with permissions.
* The default account at ConsultantCommons is enabled with all the permissions required to participate in creating content for: posts, events, and documents.
3. You must be logged-in. If you are not logged-in Login
About ConsultantCommons.org
ConsultantCommons provides an online collaboration space and community for IT consultants who work with non-profits. The system is designed so that consultants can find, contribute and collaborate on tools and information they use to maintain a consultancy and provide services to nonprofits.
Creating links and adding images
Links within content can be created a number of ways:
Entering HTML Source
You can directly enter valid HTML link tags (a href, img, etc) by switching to the source view (html) and hand entering tags that you are familiar with.
WYSIWYG Controls
The WYSIWYG editor contains controls for easily adding hyperlinks and images.
Adding attachments
Attachments can be added to all types of content on the site. When creating a new page of content, you will see an "File attachments" section near the bottom of the content creation page.
How-to Attach Files.
