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Getting Closer to a Brand New Blogging Feeling - Thanks to Liz Strauss, Blog Design Studio, and Chris Brogan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I submitted it as an entry in Liz Strauss's Brand New Blogging Feeling Contest. I've been thinking a lot about what a mess my blog is and the need to clean it up and with some help from friends some ideas and suggestions. But, I was one of the 50 lucky contest winners -- so now I have a copy of Liz???s

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We were lucky that Rob Cottingham from Social Signal was in the room cartoon blogging. He captured the key points above. Judy Chang presented an overview of PayPal’s contests, including its Regift the Fruitcake. ( I also learned about their giving app ). Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Danielle @starfocus.

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. It can be an application for any web enabled device -- IPhone, web site, blogs, Facebook, or other social networks. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. .&# Um, Matt, Sourceforge has been basically irrelevant for years, since people started moving their projects off of that platform, and onto their own platforms. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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Win Cash Monies for Changing the World

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The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). The " Change the Web Challenge " will give away more than $10,000 in prizes.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ve heard my various sagas around using Linux on the desktop. at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 I migrated to making it my primary desktop about a year ago. at 9:04 pm I agree with your assessment.

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