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Friday Fun Links: Skype Tea, Daily DoGooder, and Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Have Fun - Do Good

Reading about "Happiness Hacks" in Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal. Having Skype Tea with Amy Sample Ward. This spring I've been "having tea" via Skype with faraway friends and colleagues who I'd love to hang out with if they lived closer. It's been super fun.

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Funneling Frustration: Building the future for technology and social change

Amy Sample Ward

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. As much as we love technology, it isn’t anything without people creating it, using it, changing it, and evolving it. But when hundreds or more organizations can all say they want a change, the message is so much louder!

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Cause Camp: From Humble Roots to Must-Attend Conference

NonProfit Hub

However, the name caused some confusion, and leaders sought to make a change. ” This change sought to clear up some confusion surrounding the meaning of the event, according to the creative brief: “At this time, there is much confusion as to what Brand Camp is, when seeing the name alone.

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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

Amy Sample Ward

But these characteristics won't change about the demographic: They are vocal, demanding and discerning." And like the generation that was forever altered by the harsh sacrifices of World War II, millennials are likely to be permanently affected by the Great Recession and its long-term ripples.

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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture through a social media policy.

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Relaunching: A place for conversations, content, and more!

Amy Sample Ward

So, here are some changes that I want to highlight that I hope deliver on that goal: Featured Resources : This rotating box at the top of the home page showcases resources that may have previously been buried in the site. There is one last major change still to come, and that is changing the way comments are managed. Invitation.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. But, you can’t use the Skype edition on Linux yet, either.

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