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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards. Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. ” Its newest innovation is to provide cloud-based document storage for the homeless.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. As a nonprofit management student, preparing to enter this field can be challenging because it’s still developing.

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SOS: Save Our Site! How Libraries Can Preserve Local Online History

Tech Soup

The IMLS recently awarded the Internet Archive's Archive-It service a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from its Continuing Education in Curating Collections program for the project Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives. Register for webinar.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Document Your Results: One excellent way to document your results is to write a quick report – a couple of paragraphs discussing your hypothesis, how you did your test, and the final results. Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing.

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What I learned from the @Fitbit Community Manager at #octribe about Walking Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” I documented resources, photos, and tweets from meet up here. Give latte awards for walking and talking while meeting. Print documents at printer on other floor of office or furthest away from my desk. Finally, I shared some examples of nonprofit walking communities, for example, “ Take a Walk.”

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NTEN Members Online Round-Up: May 20, 2011

NTEN

This week, we're seeing members do both: garnering headlines for awards and news and putting the spotlight on their ideas. In the News A big congratulations to John Merritt for his nomination and award as a 2011 Top Tech Exec from San Diego Magazine ! Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments!

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TechSoup Canada Art Installation

Tech Soup

My favorite-thing-of-the-week award goes to Toronto artist Gil Martinez for this art installation he designed to help celebrate the launch of TechSoup Canada. TechSoup/CompuMentor's 22-year history is documented through four mixed-media panels and one large mural. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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