Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. NTEN Tech Handbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And there still are lots of newer software and services that aren’t coming out in Linux versions (for instance there does not exist a decent usable twitter client for Linux – gwitter is not very usable at all, and the others just don’t work.) And that’s just so stupid. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08 What price Freedom?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux. Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. at 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year. At many conference we hear folks discuss the communication strategies, results and benefits but rarely do we hear how it was actually done. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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