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Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

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Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Here’s their storytelling collection tool. They’re using software – called sensemaker – to see patterns in the data that is far too much for human brains to summarize. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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You Are Smarter Than the Phone : A Recap of AMA's Webinar on Mobile Marketing

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Flickr: Sean Dreilinger. Chi has been the brains behind the development and implementation of a number of successful mobile marketing campaigns, including an awareness building campaign for the Bowery Mission of NYC. After making his point that mobile marketing is not just relevant, but necessary -- 75% of the U.S.

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Does Immersion In Social Media Change Our Brain Functions? This Is Your Brain On Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Dancing in the Space Between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lynetter Flickr. This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. It was a late afternoon session and I was brain dead. I'm thinking back to what Barry Joseph of Global Kids had to say in a large group discussion at the Games for Change Conference. Is that quote the future?

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Futurist Raymond Kurzweil envisions a time when three-dimensional molecular microprocessors will be commonly implanted in our brains for the purpose of intelligence and physical amplification.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I I think there's a portion of ppl in our org who are "cloud" people, but upper mgmt still resists it, hence a clash.". We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc.

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