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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. It’s hype designed to sell things. And hype designed to sell things isn’t necessarily going to help make the world a better place.

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Cambodia has faster growing number of open source software users?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. NIDA is a partner with Khmer Open Source Project , an Open Source Localization project to customize Khmer-Language versions for software applications and operating system , a Linux SuSE 9.3

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

though is more hype than useful. I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Some of Web 2.0, How many nonprofits really need to have a blog? Be Helpful.

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Interview: Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her blog is filled with insightful pieces that cut through the hype of new technologies and often ask the hard probing questions that haven't been asked. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. Let's talk about your blog(s) - specifically Zen and Nptech which you launched a few months ago.

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The Mobile Web for Good: Hype or Reality?