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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards

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Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program. Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association. Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign.

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. Update: Nick Carr thinks the fair use study is “a crock.&#

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media

BoardAssist

I’ll hear comments like, “Hey Anthony, why doesn’t Tech Impact have a Pinterest page?” “Wouldn’t it be great if Tech Impact had a Tumblr on bad nonprofit technology?” “Why aren’t we using Instagram for pictures of the nonprofits we’ve helped?”. Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Leave a Comment.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07 Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a hard time being a successful business owner with employees (I pretty much suck at it, so I hitched my wagon to Database Designs Associates from 2003 until this year.) Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 I stumbled a fair bit along the way.