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TechSoup Volunteers During Data Center Move

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A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. They tire networks; call it competition fatigue.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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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

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? I've been doing a small research project.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.

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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. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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