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New Mobile Challenge: NetSquared + UC Berkeley

Amy Sample Ward

Cell phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 10 finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges, selected by the Human Rights Center, will choose three winners, to be announced at the conference.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. An important ingredient to our strategy was building a community around our mission.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. I was also wondering if I could do a quick audio interview with you on this topic. at 7:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 10.31.06 3 Michelle Murrain 10.31.06

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Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Most recently, Michael Gilbert pointed me to a very good whitepaper by Nancy White about blogs and community. She has some interesting things to say about the emergent properties of blogging communities. I think the community aspects of blogging were somewhat unexpected. It’s worth a read. Which is just fine.)

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Digital Storytelling Challenge Awardees Announced!

Tech Soup

These stories help convey the work they do, advance their missions, and highlight the communities they're working within by giving a visual (and sometimes audio) story to help supporters connect with their mission and values. Second Place: Dragonfly Forest by Dragonfly Forest awarded Adobe Audition software and a Flickr Pro account.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. This year, it’s been especially worrisome to see the rising tide of violence against the lesbian and gay communities around the world.

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