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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. That's how much we pay attention when we're subjected to a long one-way lecture. Notice how for the first ten minutes our attention rises, then plummets and doesn't regain its original height. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. marketers use them to get attention. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 tools successfully.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog points us to a recent article from the Wharton School about Internet Collaboration and suggests that nonprofits should pay also attention. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. nonprofit technology.

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

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Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared. The whole guide is Creative Commons licensed. Eli recommends the free e-book, GreenMemes Online Organizer's Guide. Cliff Figallo, Interim Community Manager.

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

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Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared. The whole guide is Creative Commons licensed. Eli recommends the free e-book, GreenMemes Online Organizer's Guide. Cliff Figallo, Interim Community Manager.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

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I promise not to say anything about a picture being worth a thousand words, but in today’s ‘attention economy’ using images in our communications online or off is more important than ever in attracting attention. I have to say that this is the easiest to use image editor I’ve seen so far. Free Images.

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