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Is Facebook an Effective Volunteer Management Tool?

NTEN

] By Chris Bernard, Idealware It’s easy to get the impression that everyone is on Facebook these days, and maintaining a presence on the site is increasingly expected of organizations interested in engaging constituents. It seems like a logical assumption that Facebook should also be a good way to attract volunteers—but is that true?

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In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. She took selfies with me and I taught her how she could use my phone to look at her children and grandchildren’s Facebook profiles. Let me connect some dots.

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NetSquared Local Events: Week of July 8, 2013

Tech Soup

The Internet has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to online nonprofit tech education. Guayaquil, Ecuador: Facebook: Explorando su potencial en las organizaciones. Portland, OR: Selecting and Implementing the Right Volunteer Management System. You betcha! But what if you learn best face-to-face or with a group?

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Social Media for Social Good Events Coming to a City Near You

Tech Soup

There are also surgeries in Naples, FL; Portland, OR; Traverse City, MI; and the Research Triangle, NC. Portland, OR: Social Media Surgery. Taiwan, Taipei: Internet community transform society zero government (g0v.tw). Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Live in the USA?

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MLK Day: Social Media + Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

No matter who you are or where you live (obviously, granted you have Internet access), you can use the same tools as anyone else to harness the collective energy of others around the world who hear your call, believe in your missing, and think you’ve got a pretty great idea about helping out. What’s the Next Step?

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. Forums and blogs too!

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Portland, Oregon: QuickBooks Made Easy. Cleveland, Ohio: How to Remarket to Website Visitors via Facebook and Twitter. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: The Internet of Things: You Only Live Twice? Marietta, Georgia: Easy SEO Fixes for Your Nonprofit. Jasper, Indiana: Social Media. Wednesday, July 19, 2017.