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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Ultimately I'd like to see more blogs around the UK that chart Technology Crusaders use and evangelism about ICT. it will come I'm sure!

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Introducing The Grant Content Kit from Salesforce.org Impact Labs

Saleforce Nonprofit

It allows you to tag paragraphs, sections, and charts with labels that correspond to the type of project, philanthropic opportunity, and — post-submission — degree of success. You can then recycle and edit relevant tagged sections for future applications. About the Authors. Stephanie Zeitz.

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Seven reasons I think "Datamasher" is so cool (and deserves your vote!)

Forum One

Datamasher is a web site where anyone can "mash-up" two sets of Federal data about US States to create a custom indicator, which can then be viewed by all on a State-by-State map or chart. Datamasher is full of lots of open-source goodness. Tags: Technology.