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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology.

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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

NTEN

Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. NTEN and TechSoup list a few. And it will!

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." If there is time there will be more boxes to search for.

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What, Why, and How of Facebook Pages: An Expertise Roundup from Mari Smith, Jesse Stay, Collin Douma, and Others

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. I also searched around for some additional advice on Facebook Pages and I've summarized the key points below: Why have a Facebook Page? Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Paul Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog. ll search my own blog to get that reference. I have one blog post here.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs.