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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

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LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. One tactic is going online. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and author of the forthcoming book, Questions Are the Answer , has this useful article about designing better brainstorming questions. After people have reviewed the ideas, it is time to have a follow up meeting to evaluate the ideas. Before the Session. The Paper Clip.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. And the results have been impressive. In so doing, it has had more impact for less cost.

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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

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. NpTech Conversations. re working with???something

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

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There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here. There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality.

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How to Get the Most from Nonprofit Webinars

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The laptop is decorated with a large Neon One sticker, which is very cool and definitely something the author of this article wants for themselves. Some might be focused entirely on thought leadership content; others may feature a mashup of thought leadership content and product sessions. A mega-nar, if you will.