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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. When To Use Brainstorming or Idea Generation Techniques in Training. Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. What is Brainstorming? . Basic Approaches.

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YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

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Hope you are too: More organizations doing more planning is Erik Anderson’s dream, to generate small victories and step closer to goal setting, risk-taking and moving the needle. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. site that has photos, etc.,

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

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Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non Non Commercial??? Share Alike???

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

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Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Don't forget to add the search tool. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work.

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