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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology. Organizations that joined Facebook early on endured the “price of early adoption”—they were the guinea pigs for a platform that was still figuring out just what to do with this form of user. Community First. Who is using the platform?

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

Technology In this decade, instead of dealing with workforce issues head-on, we often focused on the shiny new thing. Technology was the number one worst trend in museums in people's comments. For me, technology and labor were really two sides of the same coin. What will the museum work force look like when they join our ranks?

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The VietNet Information Technology and Communication Center ( VietNet-ICT ) is a Hanoi-based NGO working in information technology and communication. Kopernik technology marketplace is a Bali, Indonesia-based online marketplace of innovative, life-changing technologies designed for the developing world.

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The Blogger Returns

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Rebecca's husband is from nearby Guinea, so we're counting on getting a good introduction to West African culture - especially music. Maybe even talk about Information Technology and learn about the challenges facing NGO's in your part of the world.

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How to plan and run a good web conference

Forum One

While the technology is getting better and better ( here's a good list of options ), putting on a good web conference still requires some preparation and practice. Have a guinea pig user log in as a participant so you know what they are seeing and can work out any glitches. Below are some helpful tips. everyone can hear what you?re

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Starting a Recurring Giving Program: Tips from the Major Hospital Foundation

Connection Cafe

Once we knew which donors were most likely to convert to recurring and that we had the technological infrastructure in place, we evaluated the two groups, thinking about them a little more deeply in an effort to create the best way to reach out to them. Ask if they will be guinea pigs for the program and be honest about your purpose.

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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

NTEN

What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. Jed Alpert co-founded and is the chief executive officer of Mobile Commons, the leading provider of mobile technology for civic engagement. It's simple to cross-reference and correlate data to see what works.