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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

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As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

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NPTimes " Hot Nonprofit Websites " article highlights the successful "Main" and "Micro" sites of nonprofits, with the editorial help of NTEN's own Holly Ross. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

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" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself. I have one blog post here. All by next week! ll blog it.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

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Edge4Dev blog aims to help. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

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The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit. The research, he says, "made us realize people don't know what these wretched things called relationships are -- and that helps explain why we're so bad at them." Last word from Prof.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. It may not lead to any actual writing, but it helps trigger my creative thought process which connects to my writing. Writing is thinking.

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