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NpTech Summary: Slow Wifi and Flickr Massage Edition

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. in the NpTech Tag stream.

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The NTEN Community is Everyone's Community

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Flickr: vernhart Like many folks in our community, I do not come from a tech background. I didn’t play video games or computer games growing up, other than the required hours of Oregon Trail in elementary school. Community mam Member Appreciation Month nptech'

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The Future of the Map – With Live Demos of GIS Platforms

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Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: December 4th

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(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . And a shout out to Ash Shepard from TACS/NPower Oregon for building the pretty site. .

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Member Round Up: Fundraising, awards, and.boot camp?

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Flickr: Julia Folsom As the clear skies of autumn give way to winter's moody precipitates here in Portland, Oregon, we can feel cozier by staying connected to our communities. Additionally, the Regional Representative will receive a trip to the 2013 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Washington, DC.

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Building Community with Open Source

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And speaking of images, we want to allow people to add notes like Flickr does. Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

There’s lots of intriguing green NPTech news this month. The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. technology for good nonprofit technology news greener IT challenge NPTech news'

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