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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Nonprofit Presenters: What are your best tips for preparing presentations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next month will include NTEN's NTC. When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. Tags: powerpoint. The conference season is upon us. How have you resolved those issues?

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WebHuddle is free, and open source. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. issue as they see it.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. 3 Michelle Murrain 04.23.07

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The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function

NTEN

Open source. Open Source – API. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. The reasons are sourced from blog, news, or case study posts from a network of American Red Cross sites. Authenticate. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend.

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Demystifying Social Media Tools and the Social Media Game for Nonprofits/VolComs - Preview Version Available

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want to thank all the UK folks who sent us examples, pointers, left comments, and also a few US colleagues for walking the open source thinking walk with us - Holly Ross at NTEN and Katya Andresen at NetworkforGood who shared their powerpoints on these topics.