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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. Integrate Practical Use of the Tools for Reflection, Network Weaving, Getting Ideas, Follow Up Work.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. Lots of people were there (I ran out of handouts – I was surprised to see how many people showed up.)

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Online Communications that Don't Suck

NTEN

Given our multiple team members, we use a wiki as an easy-to-use online collaborative space, where we keep a calendar of upcoming blog topics and draft blog posts. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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The “Open Source Software is Free” myth

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One thing I note, however, is that proprietary software seems to require roughly the same amount of geek to install and maintain — and it’s very possible you’ll hit problems that you simply can’t solve without feeding up the proprietary food chain. Problem solved. Thank you for helping me articulate it.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. Geoff talks about three different approaches used in America (Mission, Problem, and Family). My sense is that most of the CSR practitioners in India use the problem approach. NGOS in India.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor.

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