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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. 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. Several maps!

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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Social Snap – add simple social share buttons to your pages and posts that are customizable: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Mix, and Instagram; display amount of total shares and likes.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. It is a must download!

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Nonprofits and transparency: Who’s walking the walk?

NTEN

Here’s Carie Lewis explaining how the Humane Society attracted one million Facebook fans ; in another post, Jeff Achen describes the role social media played when GiveMN raised $16.3 Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function

NTEN

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Open source. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Authenticate.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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