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Aspiration is partnering with TechSoup for another free webinar, Around the Twitter World in 60 Minutes, taking place Tuesday, March 16, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time.

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Aspiration is proud to be partnering with Mozilla to drive the local event strategy for their Drumbeat project. Aspiration will help to prototype what Drumbeat Local events look like across the globe, and train local organizers in how to design and run their own Drumbeat events. The event format and philosophy will be based on Aspiration’s own facilitation methodology.

What is Mozilla Drumbeat? With the aim of finding the next cool ideas that will make the web more open, Mozilla has created Drumbeat, with the goal of better connecting and growing the global community of people using web technology to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. Drumbeat provides a forum for people to share project ideas — and matches the most promising ideas with contributors, funds and guidance. For more information, visit the Drumbeat site.

Mozilla is also looking for local partners and leaders to help them engage the global community of people passionate about keeping the web vibrant and open.

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Aspiration was delighted to design and facilitate a focus group for Craigslist Foundation’s latest project, code-named What Works, in San Francisco at the end of January. The goal of the project is to assess the degree to which stories and ideas about successful community change can help others achieve success in their own communities. And to the extent that they do, to then investigate how to better get that information distributed where it needs to go. The agenda addressed topics including what motivates people to share their success stories, which organizations are already doing work in related areas, and what audiences and communities might be most in need of this kind of improved information flow.

Participating organizations included Bush Foundation, Causecast, Craigslist.org, IBM, Google.org, The Open Planning Project, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, Wikimedia Foundation, WiserEarth, as well as social media sensei Beth Kanter, Fellow at the Packard Foundation.

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