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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Adelaide, Australia: Meet the Meetups! Melbourne, Australia: Dear : integrate don’t duplicate. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Vancouver, Canada: Video for Nonprofits: Finding your Story. Thursday, August 15.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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New Year’s Resolutions for Grantmakers

Connection Cafe

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Perfect Password generator.

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Nonprofit CRM Trends Plus How to Choose an eCRM - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

We now have clients in Canada, US, UK, Australia and the Netherlands. Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? Were quite interested in traveling the globe to find good relationships that also help us become better global internet fundraisers.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Paul Farestveit A trained historian with a degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, Paul Farestveit has spent the majority of his career working for STA Travel, a global student travel company that operates large businesses in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His specialty: user testing.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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