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A New Habitat: Transforming Communities with Remote Work Tools

Tech Soup

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. Habitat for Humanity of Omaha has built 993 homes for families since 1984, and has doubled in size twice since Bob Lynn joined the team in 2008.

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Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition

Tech Soup

Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. Public Art Omaha created a searchable online database and mobile apps (for Apple and Android ) that do just that. Public Art Omaha created a searchable online database and mobile apps (for Apple and Android ) that do just that. engage with public art?

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Webinar Recap: App It Up!

Tech Soup

Apps can be used online (a web app), on mobile devices (a mobile app), or as an add-on to other tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on)." Orange County Library System Shake It! Public Art Omaha. " Some great apps mentioned in the webinar are as follows. Library Apps. for Android. NYPL Biblion.

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Heartland Pride: Winner of the #npfail Little Bets Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community! Social Media. Partnerships. Fundraising.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Coming up.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The topic is "tagging" - and I'll be interested in learning about how folks are using tagging and other web-based tools for knowledge management. The following week, I'll be hosting Wednesday's installment of the week long web2.0 online event sponsored by TechSoup.

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In-box reveries

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Instead, email is classified by tagging it - and as it most tag-based systems, you can apply more than one tag - or label , as they are called in gmail - to the same item. I try to use the email system as a tool to enhance my ability to keep my work organized, rather than as an input that makes things more chaotic.

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