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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques.

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Nonprofits Should Consider SMS Fundraising With Eyes Wide Open

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Tags: mobile. Maybe I'm jaded. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West. You Mobile Non-profit: a play in three acts. Tags: Conferences Free Agent. They want to connect.

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The "neigh"sayers take the floor again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

some exciting new wave non-profits need to catch, or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? Of course technology is developing rapidly and there are new tools and techniques you'd be a fool not to explore -- in fact there are quite a few I will urge you to take a look at. Tags: nptech , web2.0 That old debate.

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Although oriented toward business blogs, the issues he tackles come up in non-profit blogging as well. I've a number of non-profit execs have told me they shy away from blogs because they fear people might use the on-line medium to make critical comments about their organization. Tags: nptech

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

even as I evangelize among non-profits for the use of some of this newer technology. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. So why all this hype if the technology is not really all that brand new? is as stale as Y2K".

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