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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds). Their mission is to provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results.

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Are you a digital curator, packrat, editor, or snacker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. I think I'm a digital curator. Steve Rubel has an excellent definition , although it isn't new. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. The guide helped me understand that I was looking for both specific conferences as well as lists of conferences in those areas by knowledgeable people.

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NTEN Communities of Practice FAQ

NTEN

The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Groups will also have the option to hold a monthly discussion call for questions, feedback and knowledge-sharing among members. How will the CoP members interact? Are monthly webinars or calls required of a CoP?

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Remember to include both hard skills (specific knowledge and technical qualifications) and soft skills (behavioral characteristics, personality traits, and attributes of work style). Tags: IT staffing NPTech NTEN Newsletter cassie scarano. Now it is time to translate that vision into reality. Screening Candidates.