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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Technology for Communities project. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. What was your outreach strategy? . What are some insights that you've harvested about your social media strategy? What is your thought and reflection process for insight harvesting?

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

NTEN

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. There are, however, specific strategies and tools that will position you for success in the hiring process. Needs Assessment.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

NTEN

Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. 9) Develop a partnered IT strategy. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Tech Planning Tips for Every Nonprofit or Library

Tech Soup

In August, we hosted a webinar called Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries. Travis Montgomery, technology specialist, Liberty Lake Municipal Library (Washington). More than a third of our webinar attendees do not have a current technology plan, and 14 percent said they were not sure if they had one or not.

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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. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy. Details here.

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