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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

And rather than pay people to go get information about those places, Google has smartly been using a service called Map Maker, which lets locals and people knowledgeable about the area edit it themselves. Here’s a free PDF with the Top 10 Guidelines for a social media policy. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "A lightbulb went on in my head while I was listening to the PdF webinar last week that laid bare the machinery that made it possible for 350.org

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A matching gift strategy could also be applied to local nonprofits on a smaller scale. For example, secure five local community sponsors that will give $2,000 each and create a $10,000 matching gift campaign. To learn more and begin the sign-up process, visit (and bookmark) socialgood.fb.com/charitable-giving.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

BookmarkBridge — Keeps bookmarks in sync between multiple browsers: [link]. Charlie Hunsaker recommended Google Gadgets – an analog clock, local weather, an always available to-do list, current sports scores, Google Search. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use).

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Excellent ICT Digital Divide Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She said delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. just the other day I found an excellent case study on the Khmer Open Source Localization project. It was on a site called: KnowProse In comments, Taran told me he broke out of pdf so more could discover it. Usually it was not much or crap. But this has changed.

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Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization's Adaption Stories!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

The great thing is is that Bloomerang is going to make this available for you as recording, and anything you see on the screen will show up in your inbox in the form of a PDF. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” .” I know I speak fast. ” So what?

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