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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Scamper stands for: S ubstitute: What are the alternatives to materials, processes, methods you’re already using/doing? In addition, here are a few more techniques and facilitation playbooks to explore : MashUp Brainstorm Activity. Conclusion.

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Demetrio Maguigad Rocks the Social Media Game and My Remix Ideas

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"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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

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So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! According to TechCrunch , Bloglines experienced a major outage, leaving many who use bloglines taking a serious look at alternative RSS readers and exporting and backing up our OPML files. NpTech Conversations.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation. multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

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While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. Submitted by Dave Cohn. Evolution, Creation and Extinction (of the organization) Organizations, political campaigns, newspapers. Is one better than the other? Are older groups evolving quickly enough? Submitted by David Neff.