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The Top 3 Charity Rating & Badge Programs for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit is located outside of the US, then Google “charity ratings [your country name]” to find similar programs. It’s worth noting that GreatNonprofits reviews also appear on Candid. Any nonprofit that gathers 10 or more four or five-star ratings and maintains an overall average of 3.5

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How do you keep up?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the prompts for this post was also that I’m preparing a post on “cloud computing&# , just reviewing what it means, and what it is, and why it’s important – and that will undoubtedly help me to keep up with that whole set of things. RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days!

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. A quick Google search of “social media stats 2011″ pulls up a wide range of stats to share with unaware executive staff. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. Find your competitors the Web.

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How to find out about free and open source software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

Tech Soup

When I read that Google was donating $600,000 to provide free Wi-Fi in San Francisco parks, my first thought was, "Wow, it's going to be hard to get a signal at Dolores Park on a sunny day." Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. Powering Communities with Tech.

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Outlook.com — The New Hotmail

Tech Soup

Instant Chat allows you to chat with your friends from Facebook and Google from your inbox. It integrates with Outlook (on-premises) 2007 or higher by installing the free Hotmail Connector. The reviews in the technology press are coming in largely positive. Google Chrome 23. or higher (on Intel Macs): Google Chrome 23.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. First, I’ll do a quickie review of the social bookmarking phenomena and why I’ve been using del.icio.us, and why I’m switching to Ma.gnolia.