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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. NTEN blog reviews the Google Presentation tool and is sticking with powerpoint.

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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

NTEN

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. NTEN and TechSoup list a few. You can also join Interaction or the CIO4Good forums. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

Advice to newbies in nptech consulting: (1) don’t try to be a generalist, or at least don’t try to know everything. 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. 0) above and beyond all, google rules. Reposted with Karen’s permission.).

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

This ability to organize content segments, like moving post-its around on a table, makes wikis more useful than other collaborative document creation tools like Google Docs. Google docs is good if you are writing a single document or creating a single spreadsheet. You can do it physically at an in-person event like a conference.

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