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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Before the Session.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

NTEN

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. These physical or conceptual silos hurt collaboration and create redundancies. . Data silos also create problems. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Officially, a silo is a large cylinder designed to insulate its contents.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. NpTech Conversations. re working with???something Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii - Live Blogging Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaborations.   The latter is a problem because it does not describe well for newcomers.   More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more. .  It changes things quite dramatically. 

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." Collaboration. Close collaboration is always easier said than done. I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization. What about you?