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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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Whether I’m writing about marketing, strategy, or technology, one idea always surfaces. There are technology tools that can make information and data analytics accessible to everyone. Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. We all know this, right? But—you can’t know, what you don’t know.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

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How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. ” And this week, some attendees at the GEO conference were treated to Katherine Fulton of Monitor Institute’s discussion of networks and their relationship to technology.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Basics I experienced day two of the SoCap09 conference where one of the first presenters joked about “glimpses of demystification”. An easy example is green technology. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. No conference is homogenous and there was a range of views about how metrics should be used.

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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

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By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. I proposed a panel for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I do think that there are some discoverable values that are hard coded into any online platform.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. They also happen face to face at the NTC and other conferences.

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Case Study: NTEN’s Website Relaunch

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However, as technology and the available tools have progressed, we’re now finally able to tackle all these issues in a comprehensive way and within a budget that our board will actually approve. Have a taxonomy horror story? As far as timing, while we probably should have tackled some of these issues years ago (e.g. Design triumph?