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Emerging Technology, Engaging Youth, and Your Mission: YOLO!

NTEN

With this in mind, setting expectations is still important, so setting clear expectations around responses and availability via social media is vital. Follow Jason @jasonshim Shubhagata Sengupta is passionate about photography and film. We are also often asked about establishing boundaries on social media.

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The Fantastic Five GIS Tools for Nonprofits

NTEN

They work, they fit our needs, and we can hire people who know how to use them, all important features to keep in mind. In the past, every organization had to maintain their own detailed basemaps and aerial photography for map context. They’re all accessible at modest cost to most nonprofits.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click!

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. While it may be obvious that programmatic strategy – decisions that affect your coworkers, your volunteers, or your organization's mission – shouldn't be based on "snap judgments", it's incredibly hard to make the human mind work any other way.

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