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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. 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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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? does aid help developing countries???? Having a bad case of work avoidance yesterday - specifically building powerpoint slides and figuring out what to say, I got into an email conversation about Web2.0 Virtual Village???including

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

NTEN

At the same time, the cloud encourages the development of small stand alone tools that need to be knitted together into a solution. This fragmentation is a boon when you are looking for a niche solution and enables charities to both develop and distribute solutions that meet unique charity business needs.

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

NTEN

At the same time, the cloud encourages the development of small stand alone tools that need to be knitted together into a solution. This fragmentation is a boon when you are looking for a niche solution and enables charities to both develop and distribute solutions that meet unique charity business needs.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. I wholeheartedly agree ! Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue.

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The Next Wave of Technology for Nonprofits

John Kenyon

Now that the hype and the newness of social media is wearing off, the reality is setting in. Social media will continue to be around and be one avenue for communication online, but others like text based services and new tools will continue to develop. Reach and Usefulness of Social Media Plateaus.