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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It was vibrant, active, kind and generous. Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter. Social media in many ways is a numbers game. The trick is to know when to begin to encourage your supporters to move on. The community was red hot. Five Lessons Learned.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

While some introduced alternative philosophies for measuring the nuances tied to social media, others wondered aloud whether ROI simply wasn’t necessary as the tools and methodologies for analyzing yields didn’t yet exist. . "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Linux ready for the desktop?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. In general, installation and configuration of software has become much easier.

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Game Friday: Spore, Self-Expression, and the Pitfalls of Creating Your Own Universe

Museum 2.0

What does "game 2.0" Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. The ultimate substantiation of this is Spore, a game in which players invent their own life forms and manage their evolution.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. They bring with them new ideas, approaches, and tools to engaging with people.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook application developers who want to help change the world and work with nonprofits and activists need to better understand how Facebook culture and behavior meshes with activism and fundraising behaviors and workflow. Have you noticed that the card game solitaire doesn???t t make for a good party game? I may be way off.

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