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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

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I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Crafting a Successful Third Generation.

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Savvy nonprofits will fulfill their organizations mission by diversifying their income stream. Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Bush, Ph.D.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meedan has set up a stream of curated tweets from the #jan25 hashtag and is translating them into both English/Arabic. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. It is a firehouse, uncurated list. How to contextualize it?

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream.

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NpTech Summary: Slow Wifi and Flickr Massage Edition

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Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. in the NpTech Tag stream. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Social Media Seth Godin points to Mark Rovner's insightful post about the current state of fundraising. I noticed Soup.io And if you???re

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Cross-Blog Conversations: Getting off the Soap Box is Messy. but.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How might these conversations filter across into face-to-face, Facebook, and MSM (main stream media)? David points over to colleague Michele Martin's post " How to Facilitate Conversation Between Comments on Our Blogs? She is thinking deeply about how to encourage a blogging community.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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