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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists? Wait for maturation?

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#11NPD: Rethinking Movement Buildling

Tech Soup

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The difficult part is keeping it going. The moment of opportunity had passed.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Thunderclap has been called a "crowdspeaking platform." Using Uber's platform, people can have their clothing picked up on demand and donated during a winter clothing drive. Hybrid Cloud Computing.

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106 Free or Low-Cost Online Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger bots without any coding experience. Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

There are many different platforms for both doing podcasting and blogging that are easy or difficult. I have a different poll that I wanted to do which builds on some of the wise words that Alli put out. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or.

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