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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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11 Mobile Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

During the 2000s, with the rise of broadband, came an onslaught of highly designed websites with Flash and JavaScript, pop-down navigation, and pop-up windows for slide shows, videos, and calls to action. A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site. The two have completely different purposes.

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Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If people fail in an intervention model, you can destabilize a society. The complicated design involved the use of text or online flash polls that could be shared on the screen and have the audience take the poll. If people fail in marketing a product, a few people lose their jobs. Innovation is driven by iteration.

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