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Fun with Drupal Commons, a Powerful Solution for Online Community Building

Forum One

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Basics I experienced day two of the SoCap09 conference where one of the first presenters joked about “glimpses of demystification”. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. It is an exciting time. The Internet is getting physical and charitable.

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Case Study: NTEN’s Website Relaunch

NTEN

Then, at the 14NTC, I attended a session titled Progressive Enchantment: Crafting a Responsive Design presented by Daniel Ferro, Sean Powell, and Karin Tracy, where they actually had redesigned NTEN’s website as a case study for how responsive design could be used to modernize a very outdated website. Have a taxonomy horror story?

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. Colorado Project.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. After the introduction, I gave my brief presentation. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Conclusion. It has Web 2.0

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Free2choose and the Social Dimension of Polling Interactives

Museum 2.0

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. A one-minute video clip presents the issue (for example, whether students should be allowed to wear headscarves to school). The visitors on the bench face a large projection screen.

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