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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I spend some amount of my Drupal and WordPress development time, both for my clients and for myself, in setting up one or two-way integrations between websites and social media sites. It’s hype designed to sell things. And hype designed to sell things isn’t necessarily going to help make the world a better place.

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

they provide tools and plug-ins to help you access functionality that is not included in the main platform without requiring integration work of data exchange. These capabilities, combined with the wealth of tools that can be plugged into a workflow, mean that staff can do in an afternoon what used to require and RFP and a paid consultant.

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

they provide tools and plug-ins to help you access functionality that is not included in the main platform without requiring integration work of data exchange. These capabilities, combined with the wealth of tools that can be plugged into a workflow, mean that staff can do in an afternoon what used to require and RFP and a paid consultant.

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National Study Reveals: Digital and Social Media Are Delivering Results for Arts Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of our clients and fellow consultants working in nonprofits and in the arts were approaching the same question from different angles. The key question we asked is whether digital and social media are delivering on their promise and the hype. Mary Trudel and Rory MacPherson are co-principals of Trudel | MacPherson Arts Consulting.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I sure hope the reality catches up. Way to go, NPR!

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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