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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

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Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Instead of doubling down on one singular channel or communication strategy, Pencils of Promise diversifies its engagement strategy to match the diversity of its constituency.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. This analysis took all of five minutes.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. Aliza Sherman ( [link] ) not only is she a superb writer, but she obviously reads widely and links to a wide number of sources.

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. That you feel it is okay to spend some of your work day investing in your knowledge and you gather wisdom from your professional networks via social media channels. Let me explain. Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest.

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The Revolution is Twitterfied

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Five years ago, CNN and 24-hour news channels and personal blogs captured US citizen dissent at the 2004 Presidential election results (or lack thereof). In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds.

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Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And it only makes sense if the connections that can be made, the communication channels opened, the voice heard is worth that investment. Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog. As for podcasting and vlogging.

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