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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colin McKay (aka Canuck Flack ) in his Nonprofit Secret Underground Guide To Social Media Adoption suggests that most nonprofit organizations (well large ones) already have policies in place to deal with potential concerns about social media. All of them talking about hunger issues. Does your organization have a social media policy?

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. More from the Convio Summit this week.

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Avoiding a House of Cards: Three Lessons from a Multiple-Organization Data Collaboration Project

NTEN

Fortunately, soup kitchens don’t work alone in addressing hunger. Collectively, these organizations begin to address the complex issue of hunger. Each organization plays a unique role in the sector, contributing our own solutions to the complex problem of helping nonprofits adopt and use technology to create more social change.

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Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source!

NTEN

Holly Ross, NTEN. Arguments for the adoption of open code in the nonprofit sector have generally run threefold: First, it's highly customizable, so you don't have to compromise that long list of requirements. We have here at NTEN. So, the old arguments for open source software adoption are dead to me. Open Source is Dead.