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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 Yes, there are licensing fees, but they pale in comparison to what it would cost if we had to rely on an open source product and maintain it ourselves. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. {

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Once you have a policy around who will respond, you will get down to commenting and engaging in conversation. How to Comment like a Queen by Vicky Davis The Art of Responding by Beth Kanter 6. Here's a few: Bloglines. Google Reader.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. sharpie.???

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results.

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