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Susie's Blog -- A Nonprofit Techie Who Loves Chocolate and Open Source Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. If you read other blogs, what are the most useful ones for nonprofit/VSC technology issues.

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How Wikipedia Faces Emerging Knowledge with Collective Capital

Non Profit Quarterly

Drilling down on the issue of accuracy in her discussion with Marketplace, Maher puts the ratio of male volunteer editors to female-identified ones at about four to one. (No Given the vast scale of Wikipedia, it is not surprising that privacy and accuracy are also addressed clearly on the organization’s homepage. Anne Eigeman.

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. What do those guidelines look like? Be Helpful.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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7 Steps to Create Your Nonprofit Website’s Content Strategy

Nonprofits Source

Your content should go beyond the basics to provide web visitors with a meaningful understanding of your nonprofit’s work and its impact. Developing a clear content strategy is the key to creating a more engaging, valuable nonprofit website. . Set a goal. Define your audience. Establish your tone. Take a multimedia approach.

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NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I spent 8 years implementing technology “solutions&# for nonprofit organizations. Is it all just TCO arguments?

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

He inspired audible gasps when he quoted a shocking statistic from the Bridgespan Group—only 6% of nonprofits use their data to drive improvements in their work. It is essential that nonprofits get away from using data purely for marketing and instead focus on using data for monitoring. I check out the ideas42.org org blog a lot.

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