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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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