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Gen Z Hearts AHA

Connection Cafe

Children are an extremely important constituent to their mission because by teaching youth to be active and healthy at these critical early ages, they can help pass this message along. Facebook, iPads, Blackboard, Wikipedia (don't judge me, but there's good stuff there).

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. On our “ samples from the field ” section of our website, we have opted for a low-tech solution to shield against viruses and inappropriate content. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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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

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools."

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. " I also sensed a kindred spirit who is interested in how technology impacts what's inbetween the keyboard and the chair.

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Mashups with Social Impact for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. If you want to find out who else uses what social bookmarking service in the nonprofit tech sector, check out Social Source Commons. Step 3: Teach people how to start bookmarking! These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. sharpie.???