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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer?

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One That's what happened with the Art Project—a new tool we're announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail."

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Data Are Not Information

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By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." Data are only the raw material of information. So how do we get from data to information?

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From The Bench To The Boardroom

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thus, if you are collaborating academically, professionally, or in the arts, a team is a group of people brought together by a singular goal and knowledge that collectively they are better off. the broader and more informed the team’s perspective will be. Listening skills are critical to participating in any kind of “team.”

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled. One of the points we emphasized was that the art and craft of content curation was not mindless, click sharing of content. The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me.

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Use Case: The Community-Driven Social Impact game for Community Media Centers

Amy Sample Ward

Last month, at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , I had the opportunity to run the Community-Driven Social Impact game in a session workshop. The room was full, and participants came up with some terrific examples and options for their organizations. Who was the community that you were working with?

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