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Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video.

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My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. 3 Beth 03.19.07

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Meet Silona: A Woman Who Codes for Social Change!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Silona is organizing a Code-A-Thon that will lock up 100 programmers for 48 hours to see what kind of open source software can be written for non-profits. Most people don't always understand how a piece of software that facilitates conversations can change the world. It's taking place on October 13th at 6:00 p.m. until it does.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. of works of art based on tag subscriptions, could also facilitate the personal exploration of collections and offer more active connections between museums and users. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. open source.