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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. Can it be demoted now?

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Holly Ross, after her 21-day experiment, now says she's an addict and others are trying to like twitter. million users.

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Open Mobile Camp report

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Yesterday, I spent the day in Manhattan, at the UNICEF building, with a bunch of folks passionate about the technology in mobile phones, and the ways to use that technology for good. Also, check out the twitter stream for the #omc09 hashtag. Thanks to MobileActive.org and the Open Mobile Consortium for a fabulous event.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. This was the year for twitter. WordPress.

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. This is big. Be Helpful.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Does that include cell phones? So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world! And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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