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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Via BBC News Magazine : . Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder. Watch Video. But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

I can stare a picture of beautiful yarn the way a foodie would study a picture in Gourmet Magazine. In 2008, I found Ravelry. In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine. .” When I’m stressed I can knit something in my head and it relaxes me. I know, it’s strange.

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Tips for reducing IT costs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. Most of the 10 are applicable to nonprofit organizations (I’d skip the “Offshore work&# tip.)

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Blog shout outs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tidbits

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 Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though.

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Guest Post: Why Haven’t Foundations Responded to the Newtown Shootings?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Mother Jones Magazine , there have been more than 60 mass shootings in the past 30 years and more than 150 deaths this year alone. On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Guest Post by Vince Stehle.