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Allison Fine's New Book!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The day before I left for vacation I received a reviewer copy of Allison Fine's new book, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. It is not a tutorial or self-help book, but it is women helping their girlfriends, sisters, colleagues to stay connected and relevant in this new Connected Age." Check it out!

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Any many more.

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Tips to Humanize Your Social Media

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Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked. There has been a lot of great discussion over the past year about organizations striving to be more human.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. Her blog is a must-read and I hope someday that she writes a book. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. These same tools can support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities, and other kinds of organizations." These fall into the category of CRM.

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Voices from the Community: Accessibility

Tech Soup

This e-book from the OneVoice for Accessible ICT Coalition outlines the first measures a web developer should take towards making a site accessible. Entitled The First Seven Steps to Accessible Websites , the book answers the question: Where do I start? There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011.