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Getting Closer to a Brand New Blogging Feeling - Thanks to Liz Strauss, Blog Design Studio, and Chris Brogan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I submitted it as an entry in Liz Strauss's Brand New Blogging Feeling Contest. But, I was one of the 50 lucky contest winners -- so now I have a copy of Liz???s s excellent eBook and a premium WordPress theme from Blog Design Studio. But I haven't done anything.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had the pleasure of designing a panel about how Networked Nonprofits use Twitter with Claire Williams of Twitter and Danielle Brigida from NWF. I love designing panels, not only the content but the interactive piece as well. We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. The key here is that collaboration between nonprofit needs and application developers that's for all applications not just Facebook. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation.

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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Embrace a mobile-first design strategy. must be designed to be easily read on smartphones and tablets. The good news is that modern design trends for mobile email are also compatible with desktop email. Like print newsletters, e-newsletters in the late 1990s and early 2000s were mostly sent quarterly.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help Consultations. Genève, Switzerland: Do-camp: Hackaton UX Design — Responsibility.digi­tal. Check out the #Storymakers2017 page for all the details. Responsables!

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 Their computer labs and other computers designated primarily for web, email, and maybe some word processing?

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