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Net2 Think Tank: How do you stay up-to-date?
Blog posts, news articles, videos, photos, and much, much more! There are so many ways that people post content online, and that people talk about the issues you are interested in or even your organization! But, how do you stay on top of it all? And how do you do it while still having time to do the rest of your job!
How do you stay up-to-date online?
Topic:
How do you stay on top of all your favorite bloggers, news sources, and organizational mentions online?Â
- Amy Sample Ward's blog
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Announcement: New RSS Feeds for NetSquared.org
This is a short announcement to let you all know that the NetSquared.org website has new RSS feeds for you to subscribe to Community Blog and website content.
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- Amy Sample Ward's blog
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New Job (Again) - Even More Opportunities
Hi all, yet again I have changed jobs, but never forgotten Net Squared in my many moves to different organizations. I'm now at Discover Jersey Arts, a cosponsored program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and ArtsPrideNJ. It is a great organization, ready for the social web revolution (finally I'm at a job where they are prepared for this stuff and actually want to integrate these tools into their campaigns!) I'm happy as a kid in a candy store!
- Karin Jervert's blog
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RSS is the new Email
RSS to me is going to be the next email. Alot of people make the argument that "RSS hasn't caught on as much...", but I don't completely buy it. Over 65% of consumer marketing sites use RSS feeds today...that is a huge chunk of the web! Now, what I personally feel is happening...well, marketers are not sure what to do with it.
RSS is a great way to deliver content to your constituents wherever they are through aggregators. I personally subscribe to over 30 sites to keep up with the lastest political and nonprofit technology, as well as general tech and business news. Google Reader is just as great a companion to me as my inbox; I categorize incoming news, email it to friends and archive it for research purposes.
Really Simple Social Action
Hi Net2, I've just written up a few thoughts on "Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds".
I'd love to have your feedback on the subject.
Here's a large excerpt:
- peterdeitz's blog
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Aspiration's Social Source Commons
Challenges Entered:
The Social Source Commons helps nonprofits find appropriate software to support their work, and share knowledge about tools. It is the only venue on the net striving to build a complete inventory of what software is available for nonprofit needs.
Location
San Francisco, CA
United States
See map: Google Maps
Board Collaboration for PAPIE
Supporting organization:
Palo Alto Partners in Education
URL:
http://pieboard.nexo.com
Location:
Palo Alto
Project Description:
Palo Alto Partners in Education (PAPIE) is a primarily board-driven organization with only 2 staff and a budget around $2+ million. We raise private funds to supplement public funds for all the public schools in our school district.
Challenge:
We needed a tool to ensure communication and collaboration amongst the board members, staff and volunteers. We also wanted to keep a history of documents, activities, decisions, etc. to ensure continuity due to volunteer turnover year-to-year. The tool had to be easy to use and very accessible. It had to be flexibly private, meaning that it needed to allow proper permissions for each person - ensuring that only the proper person(s) could see or do what was appropriate. It needed to combine a website and email communications to reduce duplication of effort.
Solution:
Nexo allows us to create a free group for PAPIE. We have a highly customized, private website that any authorized person can add to, change, or read. We also get an email group integrated with the website so that updates, alerts, news, etc. are easy to distribute (even automatic if desired) to the group. We also can have live chats on the site if desired. We have multiple pages and multiple sub-groups (board, marketing committee, development committee, etc). The site essentially defines our own social network.
The website allows us to share blogs, files, pictures, videos, calendars, events, to do lists, budgets, plans, press releases, contact information, RSS feeds, etc.
Impact:
Not only has nexo improved communication, collaboration and participation, but a by-product is that we have a back-up for our most important files such as board minutes, budgets, etc. These used to just be stored on one computer which is scary for many reasons. The site also makes is much easier to transfer knowledge from year to year since new leaders/volunteers have the roadmap from the year before.
NetSquared Related Content in Nonprofit Blogosphere Roundup #2
I just posted another roundup of Nonprofit Blogs on my blog. Here are some of the blogs I mentioned that have content related to NetSquared:
Are you looking for ideas on how to improve your organization's profile on MySpace? Mara of Democracy in Action wrote an article about MySpace Best Practices for Nonprofits.
Interested in learning how nonprofits, advocacy groups, or politicians can use websites like MySpace or YouTube? Bonnie of Development Seed brings up some good points about this topic in her article titled Should MySpace be your space?.
Credit Unions are also using MySpace. There is a great discussion about this topic at MySpace for Credit Unions.
- eweinb04's blog
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Brand new and useful: a survey of the week's newest tools
Over at TechCrunch I've been reviewing more web 2.0 startups than you can shake a stick at; while the crowd over there is generally not focused on social change, an awful lot of interesting things come our way that could prove helpful in a nonprofit context. Here are some of my favorites from last week, in order of usefulness.
Nonprofit Technology Events, Courtesy of TechSoup
Have I mentioned lately how much I love TechSoup?
The latest reason why I love it is that you can now go to TechSoup to see a list of upcoming nonprofit technology events.
I'm a little disappointed that there isn't a TechSoup RSS feed exclusively devoted to these nonprofit technology events. If one becomes available, I will certainly add it to my blog. And of course it would make a perfectly splendid addition to the NPtech Meta Feed.
Disclaimer: Although I have been a consultant to TechSoup on its NetSquared project, this effusion was not solicited, approved, or subsidized by TechSoup. I am merely writing as a humble fan.
This article was originally published in my blog, "Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector," under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.
- Deborah Elizabeth Finn's blog
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