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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0. This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. An example?

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. We're going to use an Interactive Presentation where we will walk folks through what, what, how, tools, and tricks. Top Three Takeaways.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. 2) Bookmarks can???t Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Bookmark it, share it, love it, and download it for Google or Outlook. Our individual and collective capacity to hold multiple perspectives, even when we disagree, is a valuable movement-building tool. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017! Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.