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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

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I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.

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Purpose Prize Awards $100K to Social Justice Innovators Over 60

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Since 2006, the Purpose Prize has received approximately 1,200 applications a year. Aside from online paid advertising, Civic Ventures’ Campaign team is using social media to reach new people and generate more applications this year. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Receive monthly updates.

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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

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I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. The more types of updates you mix in the more interesting the feed becomes. Decide what you want to accomplish with this account.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Consuming Reading Feeds. Read your feeds.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

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DevelopmentSeed blog posted back in October some screenshots of the Facebook application created to Help End Poverty as part of the UN Millennium Campaign outreach to Facebook community. If you're curious about what other Facebook applications are being used by nonprofits, check out this top 12 list.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

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They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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applications have changed the rules of online community. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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