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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

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RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. Here are some highlights from this month's particularly tool-loaded Communications RoundTable with Chad Norman of Blackbaud.

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Data Portability for Good

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Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Because data is powerful! Why make your data portable?

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2009 NTC: Awards Show Wrap Up

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Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Nature Conservancy Photo Contest.

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Raise Money on Facebook: Four Strategies You Need to Know About

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As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. These applications, and others, add a powerful philanthropic layer to Facebook.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Successfully Going Mobile

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Millennials want basic information and tools for action. Using a mobile app allows you as a nonprofit to have a tool where you can push messages out about how to volunteer/give, what the impact is, etc. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest. Mobile application giving will grow, 1:4 gave vs preferred.

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