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Your Personal Guide to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference: How to myNTC

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myNTC has a whole spectrum of ways to connect with your fellow attendees, but the first thing you'll want to do is update your profile with a picture, bio, your external social media links, and your interest tags. We all know that the best part of the NTC is the connections you make with the nptech community. Step 4: Find Your Friends.

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Tech Across Your Org: Technology Leadership at a Small Organization

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Take a high enough view to see the entire picture. Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly. Draw a red line where information/communication is in a silo (if this spreadsheet was lost or destroyed, could you get the same information easily elsewhere?)

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Case Study: The Neverending Data Story

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Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people. The larger the green circle, the greater the grant amount. Click map for interactive version.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

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In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. Unfortunately, they did not have releases for the children's pictures. It is hard to turn down a client for services when they saw the picture of the big check on your site. Tags: dee albritton Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: How Does Your Nonprofit Have Fun and Do Good?

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School gardening program, Urban Sprouts , has fun by collaborating with Meet the Greens , a website about two middle school kids who are green (literally and environmentally), and with Trash Mash-Up an organization that works with students to make costumes and other fun things out of trash. nonprofit carnival consultant fun nptech

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The PREP Method of Design: Start with the Right Questions to Appeal to the Right Audience

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Conclusions indicate that the upper left of a page is the highest viewed area, headlines draw the eye before pictures, and more. This doesn’t mean don’t use blue, it just means you have to be careful of blue text on certain background colors like green, grey, etc. Colors are important : Not all people see things the same way.

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Notes from Google Earth Outreach at Net Tuesday

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Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above). Google Earth Outreach nonprofit mapping nptech net2 activism Videos in the balloons will only work on Windows.

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