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

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Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Networked Nonprofit Update: November

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Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Content Curation Primer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.

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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

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The youtube video is from Star Bucks Campaign. Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs.

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Jerry Coltin on Arts Organizations and Podcasting

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Jerry Coltin gave an excellent overview which included listening to and showing some examples of arts podcasting and video podcasting. These were mostly museums like MoMa (which I wrote about over a year ago here ) and a few others. Museum Podcasting Resources. They mostly focused on what I call the middle of the road approach.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

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Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media

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I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext.