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YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. Nancy Schwartz hosted this past month’s carnival and I’m happy to share her round up as a guest post. budget). .

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is some advice on fair use: Don't I get to reprint an image without permission under the "fair use" doctrine? My approach has been to stick with Creative Commons licensed Share Alike 2.5 On the serious side, I wish there were some clear guidelines about what exactly is fair use in the nonprofit space.

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in I'd also like to point out a video genre that has been used for social change: machimina. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. It isn??????t

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. NpTech Conversations. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. 20 practices. Anil Dash , of Sixapart , was one of the speakers.

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