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KC Ronald McDonald House Goes Online to Manage Volunteers

NonProfit Hub

For Tara Alder, the Volunteer Manager of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City, this challenge is her everyday existence. Alder manages the volunteers for the four Ronald McDonald Houses in Kansas City, and all of the organization’s volunteers. Alder said they try to recognize the volunteers as much as possible.

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Where in the World Is the NTEN Staff?

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November 8-9 in Kansas City, MO : The 18th annual Philanthropy Midwest Conferenc e will feature Anna speaking about Mobile Fundraising Made Easy with Mobile Citizen. November 8-11 in San Diego, CA : T he TAG Annual conference will focus on Harnessing New Trends in Communications and Technology.

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NTC Day of Service: Our Tenth Year!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This annual event started over a decade ago in Kansas City as a way for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community by volunteering their expertise for a day. Tags: 10ntc. My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , has been involved since the beginning and I'm lucky every year to host the Day of Service with her.

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This and That

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Dave King is the acting director of IT at the Kansas City public library. Tags: nptech , net2 While the blog is not primarily about technology, he explores in this post his ideas for utilizing Writely, a web based collaborative word processor, as an educational tool.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. here , using the ICT4peace tag. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

The delivery of free Internet service to low-income households, along with access to free computers or public computer centers like those developed by the WEB Dubois Learning Center at 55th and Cleveland in Kansas City, should garner more attention by the KC public and government. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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How-to: Let Go and Start Blogging

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Matt Quinn is IT Manager for Harvesters food bank in Kansas City , Missouri and serves on the Board of Directors for KKFI 90.1 FM , a community radio station serving the Kansas City area. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. He also teaches classes on podcasting and social media.