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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. There are channels for everything. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Channels include Latest News, Pets, Wildlife, Animal Rescue, Factory Farming, Animal Fighting, Fur-Free, Horses, Protect Seals, Wildlife Abuse, International, Investigations, Press Room. Updated: May 6, 2009. This application funnels numerous Surfrider Foundation feeds to one place. Released: November 16, 2009.

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Boost Your Voice with LightBox Collaborative’s 2012 Editorial Calendar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From email blasts to Facebook pages, in many cases it’s now nonprofits that find themselves with channels in need of content. But it takes content: you’ve got to feed those media platforms and seed those conversations. Flickr Photo by Yandel. Content is King. Align Your Team.

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Nonprofits and Content Strategy: The Wisdom of the Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about.

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Great reads from around the web on February 11th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Causes may even want to consider alternative mobile channels for communications and fundraising.

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