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Heartland Pride: Winner of the #npfail Little Bets Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, during the Nonprofit Technology Conference plenary session on placing little bets and learning from failure , we issued a challenge to 1,000 nonprofits in the audience. Here is a summary of the stories and what people learned from the experience: Events. Break it down into smaller, bit sized campaigns.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Shout-outs, Contests, Wikis

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She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. There's a lot of good info there on nonprofit technology topics, so even if you're not from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, you might want to take a gander at the notes !

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AI in Grantmaking: Taking Careful Steps Toward the Future

sgEngage

I tried ChatGPT and can tell you it writes wonderful haikus, crafted a pretty decent Valentine’s Day message for my sweetheart, and correctly predicted many of the matchups in my colleagues’ Holiday Movie bracket contest. On its face, this seems at best a pleasant distraction, or maybe just a waste of time. What do you think?

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#npfail Share Your Nonprofit Fail Story and Win A Microsoft Surface!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s the summary of a post I wrote last week for the Harvard Business Review Blog called “ Go Ahead Take A Failure Bow.” Share Your #npfail story by April 30th and you will have a chance to win a Microsoft Surface or other schwag from the Case Foundation that is sponsoring the contest.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. The proposed call agenda is here.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. This is technology for good news from India. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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