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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

These include Blackboard , ANGEL , and WebCT (now owned by Blackboard), among others. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t." I brainstormed series of equations or theories that represent best practices that nonprofits are using to implement social media. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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Using Cartoons To Make Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: If you’ve picked up a copy of the newly released “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World ” than you no doubt noticed the cartoons, created by Rob Cottingham , that begin each chapter. Those salmon bones could become a bar chart, tracking the decline in population.

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