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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. What is the ROI of the Social Web for Nonprofits? And both can be difficult to measure.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, of course, always, for developers. 4 Brian 06.25.08

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.” From Around the Web. Like me you may be a bit unclear about what big data actually is. ” Uh.

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