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Bullet Journaling for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Among them: Have a place to plan, reflect and think offline. Getting offline for thinking on paper and writing are known tools to improve our thinking and creativity. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. Reduce over-planning.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Their mother might be in one of those photos. More and more, now we can.

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A few new social apps.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 and offline communication be bridged, to reach more people? Social Search: Spock , a search engine that organizes information about people. Here's the link.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. So, why shouldn't our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well? More and more, now we can.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.