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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Go vote here.

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NpTech Summary: Slow Wifi and Flickr Massage Edition

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. The summary: most big charities are based on direct mail. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Congrats to “Lethal Sheethal” Shobowale: Winner of The Blue Sweater Book Giveaway

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She wrote up a summary of notes on her blog. Here's why she wanted the book: I went to see the conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz at the Paley Center and wrote a summary of the discussion on my blog. I would love to read the text that she has been working on for 10 years.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

To learn more, read Box's summary of how nonprofits can use its services. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. Foundations can streamline funding development and partnerships by creating a grant submission and approval process with Box.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan. Phil Shapiro salutes DC Web Women's 12th Year, although the women in web design stats are depressing.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

Have Fun - Do Good

Research Summary: Graff, L. I'm a big fan of Kiva too. Volunteer for the Health of It , Etobicoke, Ontario: Volunteer Ontario.) Volunteering lowers the risk of physical ill health because it boosts the social psychological factors that healthy people have. (

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