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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. NPTech Contests and Awards. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. This 25 th. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. Vote for this Idea]. All Agencies.

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