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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. Find my profile of Jason here including his list of NPTech heroes and where he gets his info.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it is definitely a matter of personal learning styles and treating your participants as adults who can decide how they learn best. I remembered some terrific blog posts that Kivi Leroux Miller wrote ( here and here ) about repurposing content and this definitely applies to instructional materials. Know of any? look here ).

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They remind me a lot of Rod Beckstrom's ideas that I posted earlier about IT support following a disaster. Our agency has that functionality - we have disaster web site, email address and phone number on our ID badges to let the agency know where we are and what is happening, but there isn't any connection outside.

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Win Back Your Lapsed Donors

Bloomerang

Was it a disaster, an natural disaster that happened that brought them on and they always give to that particular topic or in that particular month when we talk about that topic? So if you’re a disaster response organization, this is a toughie. So is it a back-to-school campaign? Was it an Easter campaign? It’s just.

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.” Big Data in Disaster Relief. It’s a big fuzzy topic, but I’ll give it a shot. ” Uh.

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[VIDEO] Major Donor Stewardship – Strategies That Build Lasting Relationships With Your Most Significant Givers

Bloomerang

This personal info helps ensure that you’re communicating with the donor in a way that shows familiarity and respect. And they will definitely at times propose to you something that they are interested in funding. We didn’t practice, and all of that equaled disaster. ” No. Put that out of my mind.