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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Open for suggestions!

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Send Beautiful Email Appeals that Get Delivered

NTEN

An overview of what happens after you hit send (hint: an easy-to-read response screen that tells you, in plain terms, how many people opened your email, clicked on a link, forwarded it, opted out, signed up and more). A live Q&A session to make sure all of your questions are answered.

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How the Global Mobile Revolution is Transforming Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

More than 55% of emails are now opened on a mobile device (Source: Litmus®), and you can expect that percentage to grow steadily each quarter. If it’s a frustrating experience for you to donate to your own nonprofit on a smartphone (hint, hint: test, test), imagine how your donors feel. There’s no way around it. 4) SOCIAL MEDIA.

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Experimenting with Facebook Landing Pages

NTEN

Here are a couple of additional helpful hints that I noticed while going through the process: Facebook limits the length of your tab’s title to approximately 12 characters - it seems to be a width measurement rather than a firm number of characters. if you use Firefox, open up and view your page in a new Internet Explorer window).

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How To: Put Technology to Use (November 2008)

NTEN

Hint: they don't.) Then, if you haven't already, jump on the Cluetrain : be open, honest, and direct. Of course, to follow all this advice, you need to know your way around PhotoShop (or its open source equivalent, the GIMP). Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. Write for the Web.

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Online Communications that Don't Suck

NTEN

and Trackable (of 60 people who opened the email, 25 clicked to the donate page and 12 donated). Hint: you have to ask before you can know that.) Tags: email Newsletter NPTech NTEN online communications websites. Tracking user trends is vital to understanding if your online communication efforts are succeeding -- or not.