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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Paul Lamb might.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. Over the past 12 years, Adrienne has raised nearly $20 million for a variety of causes, including at-risk youth, mental health, and higher education in Virginia, New York, and California. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising.

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Why Is Inclusive Imagery So Hard?

Media Cause

As a chubby girl growing up in small-town Virginia and having questions about my sexuality, I remember feeling confused and frustrated that I didn’t fit into society’s standards, and I didn’t ever feel “normal,” which was an uncomfortable thing in such a homogenous place. Turns out most paid stock galleries aren’t much different. .

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Today, we are still a small organization with only seven staff members, five based in our Virginia office.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Today, we are still a small organization with only seven staff members, five based in our Virginia office.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

Almost all of us here are set up with the laptop screen and the main monitor. I think that's a really important aspect to it because even if you're in, for example DC, you might find that there's a space being started up in Virginia that's close enough by, or you can cross the border and work there.

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