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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

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That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. followers, can tweet and receive significant engagement (comments, retweets, likes) without having to engage their followers. It’s a community that takes a while to understand and adapt to.

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Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS

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 Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

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 #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

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 #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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Sweet tasting dogfood…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless.

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Wiki Syntax madness

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 There is a DokuWiki plugin available. I doubt it, but it would be nice. { at 5:10 pm Have a look at the CREOLE project. Updating it to Creole 1.0 is on my todo list. 2 admin 11.26.07 at 5:56 pm Thanks, Andreas. This is SO great!

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