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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! View more documents from Noah Flower. And the results have been impressive.

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Hello We Are Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. Last week a group of lawyers representing a forthcoming book told us they didn't want us using same for the name NTEN's project. No small irony that the book and our project is about the collaborative power of social media. Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. Their mission is to link the world’s knowledge in the same way that all of the world’s web pages have been linked to one another. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. I did a mashup with social media framing. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. .

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fine writes about in her book Momentum. The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Judgment ???

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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