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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Giveffect, for example, captures and aggregates check-in and check-outs at multiple levels: shift level, event level, and volunteer level.

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the left column you can see what would appear to be the ideal traits of a professional curator, while on the right you can immediately recognize the ones of scrapers, republishers, cheap aggregators and other “thin” publishers as Google would call them.

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Why Should You Provide Continuing Education to Your Members?  

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Some fields require recertification for licensing purposes, while others may require their workforce to take refresher courses for changes in local, state, or federal laws and regulations. Professional development presents the opportunity for a worker to become a go-to resource or even a respected expert in their chosen field.

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What Tools Do You Use for Making Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Use Efficient?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. Note from Beth: Social media is not a waste a time, but there are ways to waste your time.

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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons

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We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. In our view these ?online online civic infrastructure? public goods ? irrigation management in South Asia?

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason.

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In Case You Missed It

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Dave Winer has a new project: aggregating the tweets of the 100 most followed tweeters. Creative Commons wants to hear how you use their license. A new study on how the human eye scans web pages may give you some clues on how to redesign your website. You are redesigning your site, right ? As it turns out, they're pretty boring.

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