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The Painting Journalist: Witness To Peace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. I'm a dog person, so this one got my attention -- a portion of the portrait fee will be donated to the Humane Society, the dog might get a new home, and you can watch a time lapse video of her painting the portrait.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About

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The upside is that they will be more eager and capable adopters of the technology you give them. Outside of the actual tech, you will also need to pay closer attention to policies. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. Your staff will increasingly demand the technology solutions they want from you.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

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Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Mashups make me want to sing! You need leadership skills to drive adoption and participation across the organization. I want to eat statistics for dinner. What about you?

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Web and PR/Marketing An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press) Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?

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Ed Schipul's Social Fundraising Presentation Inspires Interest in Our Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Themes from the above links and from other reading: Non profits have adopted social media very quickly. Pay attention. Video - the adoption rate of video isn't quite there yet, but it will be. Mashups Rule - programmableweb mashups for example. He has full notes here. Some argue faster than for profit businesses.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Does being engaged in the creation of the work spur more appreciation for the art form and hopefully attention and participation? The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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