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What I’m learning

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. Check out the wiki. It is actually pretty mind-boggling. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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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.

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Opportunity to Mentor Nigerian Women - The Networking for Success Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools. The project, which will last for 3 months, will run from May to July 2008. The tools used will include (but not limited to) a combination of Web 2.0 You can learn more about the Women'sTechnology Empowerment Centre here.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. The Third C: Community.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. June 2008 (9).

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Some are calling it impact investing.