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The search for good web conferencing

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 The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) They were talking about API’s.

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Great reads from January 16th through February 6th

Amy Sample Ward

How to Use the New FriendFeed Search for Social Media Intelligence - ReadWriteWeb - Have you tried using FriendFeed? Well, they launched a new search tool today that could help you "discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Interesting to compare different styles and approaches.

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How Do Other Organizations Control Administrative Costs?

Tech Soup

They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. GrantStation also allows members to search for grantmakers by support type, including General Support, which is non-directed dollars. Attempting to Combat the Overhead Myth.

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

Qgiv

Be strategic in making sure you find the right place for them on your committee, even if that means continuing your search for that elusive sponsorship chair. This is something that’s great to reference in these difficult conversations when needed. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t engage them. There’s probably a spot somewhere for them.

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10 Best Web Content Practices - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

4) Search Engine Optimization: Integrate keyword-rich content into your website that your target audiences want to read. February 26, 2009 | Gayle Thorsen Allyson, Great overview of web content best practices. John February 26, 2009 | John Haydon I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.

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Guest Post by Deanna Zandt Measure THIS! An intro to social media ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. You can easily set up searches for relevant names (of your staff people, spokespersons, etc.), You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. Measure THIS! Good question!

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