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Crowdsourcing Events: The Citizen Gulf Project

NTEN

All the event organizers ask is that you find a venues the can accomodate the following: "People, hurricanes, New Orleans themed music (i.e. jazz, blues, zydeco) and a local green or environmental expert who can say a few things about the oil spill’s impact on the marine environment and the Gulf Coast economies associated with it."

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Movable Type goes Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment.

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How To: Put Technology to Use (January 2009)

NTEN

Get the Most out of NTEN. Anyway, if all you're getting out of NTEN is this newsletter, you're clearly missing out. But if you really want to thrive in the current economic environment, you'll take the next step and become a Member. The musical acts should come as quite a surprise. Hmm, wait, that doesn't sound right.

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Free and open source tool #8:XChat

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know that for people who work in real offices, with real other people, IRC is a difficult tool to use – because it takes you away from the environment you are in, and makes it hard to be a part of multiple conversations. It’s also scriptable. On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc.

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices.

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN has just announced the first NTC video competition. In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???

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New Screencast: Web Analytics Demystified: A Primer for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm pleased to announce that I have completed the screencast, sponsored by NTEN , on Google Analytics! For all my blog readers and participants on the NTEN Nonprofit Webmasters Affinity group who left comments, made suggestions, pointed me to resources, and shared screen captures of their stats. High bandwidth version available here.