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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. You've got to love their logo.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Susie's Blog, winning hearts and minds over to FOSS, points to an interesting article about how to convince management to approve free software. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Perfect Password generator. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Guest Post by Angus Parker: Review and Book Giveaway - The New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Second, she goes into a lot of details on what she calls 'Informational Social Networks' like Wikipedia , Mahalo Answers , and Yahoo Answers which get a lot of traffic and can generate significant ongoing referrals. WiserEarth, for example, would fit into that category. Since its a wiki and frequently updated it won't be obsolete like a book!

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia , a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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