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Great reads from around the web on January 24th

Amy Sample Ward

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. craigconnects – "I took a look at a few articles and studies, and according to ComScore's 2010 Digital Year in Review, email use dropped 59% among Internet users ages 12 to 17 in 2010.

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Webinar: The Procrastinator's Guide to 2010 Year End Fundraising

Care2

Join us for this webinar: The Procrastinator's Guide to 2010 Year End Fundraising When: Thursday, December 9th at 2PM ET Who: Alia McKee from Sea Change Strategies, along with a surprise special nonprofit guest and moderator Ryann Miller of Care2. What is Care2?

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To add image descriptions to a DAISY book, a teacher or other user of digital texts could visit a website that is hosting Poet, such as poet.diagramcenter.org and upload a book from their school server, or select a book that has already been uploaded. Groups such as high school or university clubs are welcome to participate.

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Nonprofit Strategy Conference Calls from PdF

Tech Soup

The Personal Democracy Forum is hosting a series of three conference calls over the next month. How to Lead "The Networked Nonprofit" November 11, 2010 Speaker: Allison Fine , Senior Fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos: A Network for Change and Action and co-author of The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change.

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Walking the Tight Rope: Finding Work-Life Balance in the Nonprofit Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

In Spring 2010, I administered an informal survey as part of a Public Allies independent study project. Laci's nonprofit experience is largely rooted in youth leadership development, having volunteered with Anytown Arizona and working for the Civic Leadership Institute program hosted by Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. The account is managed by @KevinSage.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

In celebration of the name change, New Pathways for Youth hosted a block party for the community where local phoenix public figures spoke in support of the new branding. Alex Flores is a recent graduate from Arizona State University with a bachelor of science in Sociology and a minor in nonprofit studies. Brand Strategy , 25-25. [2]