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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

A bus driver or cleaning staff might need only a few of these skills, whereas a development director might need all these and many more skills. When assessing the skills of technical staff, such as an IT director or a database administrator, you might be tempted to narrow your focus to only technical skills, which would be a mistake.

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work. Quietly, a lot of groups are doing this important work – but I am beginning to feel they may require even greater attention.

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Case Study: NTEN’s Website Relaunch

NTEN

In our first installment, NTEN’s IT Director, Karl Hedstrom, and Operations Director, Jessica Holliday, answer a few questions about what we’re setting out to do, and how, and why. Have a taxonomy horror story? Follow along as we chronicle the joys and occasional headaches. Julia: Why a new NTEN website? Design triumph?

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? On this two minute video, Dan Hanley, Director of Development, Boulder County Aids Project, talks about how Twitter is a useful tool in his fundraising work primarily for Twitter’s ability to connect and develop relationships with new donors.

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Wiser Earth: A (free) Platform for Networks of Networks and Communities of Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

WiserEarth's vision comes from NCI’s Executive Director, Paul Hawken , who recognized its need when researching his latest book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming. You'll also find a detailed taxonomy of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration.

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