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NTEN's (Free!) Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

You can get more information and RSVP for the streamed broadcast here. Help you assess the costs of migrating to a Cloud computing solution, including how to do an apple-to-apples comparison with your existing systems. There will be two tracks. You won't be in San Francisco? Not to worry. The best part?

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12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change

Tech Soup

Mobile devices allow multi-touch and gesture navigation, precise GPS-based location tracking; have audio, video, and camera capabilities; let you send real-time notifications and SMS messaging; and more. Broadcast SMS. Think about that in comparison to your email open rates. Understand how mobile extends your capabilities.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Twitter should be used for cultivation, not broadcasting.

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The interview took place during during Beyond Broadcast. Use a script: Write out your questions in advance and this keeps you on track. If anything, the juxposition of the cell phone footage with my camera footage shows that my camera audio and visual quality looks and sounds great in comparison. We discussed the pros/cons.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." There are apparently over 2,000 of these things that track us.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This study shows that Twitter has become a formidable communication tool allowing the broadcast of short messages to millions of followers. The study’s author, Matthias Lufkens , says that the most successful organisations are those that use Twitter to make connections and tell stories, not just broadcast news.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.