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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Jonathan Hedstrom, OpenSourcery. And videos!

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Same crap, different day

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was only vaguely following the brou-ha-ha over Causes leaving Myspace. I know they are becoming an increasingly important tool for nonprofits in communicating with their constituents, and so I do keep them in my peripheral vision, for sure. I use them a lot, both for work as well as for personal use.

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LinkedIn suits up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They were getting creative and pioneering MySpace in 2005 and Facebook in 2006 long before corporate brands and universities, but that hasn’t been the case with mobile technology. Mostly I think it’s because nonprofits think mobile technology tools are too expensive. That was true a year ago, but not today.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Myspace is going with OpenID ! Is this a bad thing? That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. {