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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Raw data—such as customer lists with phone numbers and email addresses—is a valuable resource as-is. There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products. It means that you are open to the importance of the role data plays in your organization.

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Five Ways Social Media is Helping to Build Social Justice Movements

Care2

Creates more open and transparent conversations about thought-provoking issues. Pre-internet, people were limited to these passionate conversations with friends in person or by phone. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs.

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

NTEN

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Start thinking about success stories that you can share with your organization.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

NTEN

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. But they were open to sharing a person. Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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A 5 Week Mid-Level Donor Boot Camp: Make Your Nonprofit’s Mid-Level Fundraising Program Great Again

Connection Cafe

Opening Advice: First do no harm. So, this week you are going to be a world-class listener, by: Reviewing any surveys or interviews that have bene done in the past; Asking whoever reads the feedback that comes in online what feedback they are seeing; Calling four donors on the phone and asking what they’re thinking about lately; and.

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Information Coping Skills for Memory Loss? Writing it down.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. In my younger years, I could easily remember phone numbers, urls, addresses, people names, or what I ate for lunch. I put on a wiki for easy maintenance and for whoever stumbles upon it and might find it useful as I believe in open content and open thinking.

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