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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technology for Communities project. The Technology for Communities project was started off by Nancy, John, and Etienne. The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them. Step 2: providing technology: choosing a strategy, selecting a solution, and planning the change.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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The Answer to Sean's Question: Tools for Effective Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). But all is not well.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Ultimately I'd like to see more blogs around the UK that chart Technology Crusaders use and evangelism about ICT. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post).

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Purpose Prize Awards $100K to Social Justice Innovators Over 60

Care2

The Purpose Prize is a project of Civic Ventures , which has an impressive history of awarding lifetime achievement awards to people like Joe James , who is bringing the economic power of green technology to farmers in the rural south, and Barbara Cervone , who is empowering youth to tell their stories through the web.

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