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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Emilio Tavarez. Child Nutrition Programs Manager, Hunger Free America.

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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was having lunch with a friend this week, who runs a small advocacy organization in Canada, that relies heavily on the use of email lists. The question arose as to whether or not it was worth thinking about shifting some of that communications traffic from email lists to the web in some form. I’ve blogged about Elgg before.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Mostly I have lots of questions and concerns that the firms won’t be able to address until the merger is completed — if then. My main questions are about product strategies.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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5 Tips for Creating Impact with Omnichannel Marketing

Forum One

Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to make sure your content is effective in your omnichannel strategy: What kind of content are your users already consuming? Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress. When are your users consuming particular content?

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun!

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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

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Be sure to check out slide 13 that answers the question, What Can We Measure for Web2.0?" NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge

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