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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm filling in for colleagues Marnie Webb and Billy Bicket from Netsquared. I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools.

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Online Project Management Tools

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This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task.

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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

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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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The Best Productivity Tools (Part 2): Favorites Revealed

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Last week, we reported on a recent NetSquared London Meetup that investigated the IT tools that can be used to operate nonprofits inexpensively and effectively. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. Open-Source Tools.

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

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Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. Are nonprofits ready to build alternative platforms to AirBnB and Lyft’s owned by the people? Let us insist on what is most transformative.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

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NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. The website has a support page where you can ask questions.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. And if you???re

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