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With Liberty, and Information, For All?

NTEN

More databases now have protocols and mechanisms that allow you to pull your data out and publish it online, so your site can always have your most current information, no updating required. But they've also made sure that third-party content is licensed through Creative Commons. You need to do that with your own data.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. What role can it, or should it play compared to the myriad other information flows and sources? What neat tricks could I do with it to enhance access to information?

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Communicate with your fans regularly just to stay in touch or with special news, offers and information. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Generic license This article was originally posted on NetWits Think Tank at [link] by Frank Barry: Frank is a Managing Consultant at Blackbaud - Internet Solutions.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.)