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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Technical or Systems Challenges. Organizational Culture.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Terms and Trends in DIY and Open Source Online Maps

NTEN

You could embed a simple Google map on your website or you could invest in a Flash-based mapping tool. Online maps can demonstrate the breadth of large movements or highlight grassroots work at a very local level. In ancient times (5-6 years ago), there were two main ways to visualize data with online maps.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine. I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

It morphs this way and transmogrifies that way and reveals new cracks in the systems we use each and every day -- from our cellphones to ATMs to voting machines -- providing fertile ground for those with malicious intentions to infiltrate our data and productivity. Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?)

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

Use free flash players like XSPF or Podcast Pickle's branded widget player to embed your latest or favorite episodes on your website. If your phone system has the ability to play custom hold tracks, consider playing segments of your podcast when constituents call your offices and are put on hold.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I also looked at a system that The Gilbert Center has been using. Also, please be aware that we will be rolling out support for VoIP and “Desktop Sharing from a Linux system&# before the end of the year. We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. Keep up the good work… 11 Albert Kim 08.27.07

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