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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

The Boston Globe published an article in September, subtitled, “Billions of dollars and a Nobel Prize later, it looks like ‘microlending’ doesn’t actually do much to fight poverty.&# " – I'm interested to hear what you all think about this issue, especially now during the 'giving season.'

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Virgin America As Connector

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since March, I've been commuting between Boston and San Francisco. Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player. Tags: fundraising2.0 Miro Logo. One of the best things about the commute is Virgin America airlines in flight experience.

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite.

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March Blogtipping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And tag your posts so more people can find them – they are gold. Technorati Tags: npblogtipping , nptech , blogtipping { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.03.07 He’s down to earth, ruthlessly honest, and gets right down to the heart of things. I like JP’s take on the development side of nonprofit issues.

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Software Coding Bounties

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 bounties: [link].

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Spirituality and Technology

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins. Chad Capellman of Boston, who lent his development help and keen CSS eye to this project. Tags: community guest blogging online communities. As we explain on our About page, we're out to bust some silos.

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