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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Here’s what I learned: How did you get started working in the nonprofit sector? However, now I’m bringing a new tool to my work in the form of mindfulness.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

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). I fretted that there was little compelling evidence that it worked. A year later, the evidence is arriving and the backlash has begun.

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Mobile Trends Your Nonprofit Should Be Watching

Tech Soup

Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Adopting BYOD practices will make for a more flexible workplace and allow your staff and volunteers to work from their preferred devices. Windows Phone Evolves. More on Mobile.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us Global NpTech Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world, mostly in Africa. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Social bookmarking in plain English! Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. Some very useful posts in there!

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Bookmark it, share it, love it, and download it for Google or Outlook. Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. 10/24/2016.