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

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Photo by Teddy Llovet. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. Why am I excited about this project?

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

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Photo by Aaron Schmidt. Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. How to create systems for accessing knowledge resources that foundation staff will use.

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

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Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. Instagram has become a popular way to share photos, along with Flickr , where we catalog all our images from events and exhibitions.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

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Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning. All about the Forums.

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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Blogs, wikis, photo-sharing and other forms of online dialogue (unless posted by authorized Easter Seals personnel) are individual interactions, not corporate communications.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

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Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Since the courses are very interactive, learners gain experience in online communication and teamwork as well as new knowledge in the subject of the course.

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