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Hiring and feeding techies



Tips, tricks, and a few observations on hiring technical staff from the book "Nonprofit Internet Strategies."
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Deploying the Latest Cool Tools for Live Fundraising Events


As a sort of counterpoint to the Blogathon (which is a fundraising activity conducted entirely online) , I'd like to call attention to RelayBlogger.   The latter is a blog by Chris Dover, who is spending the summer creating a web strategy for a live and face-to-face fundraising event organized by the American Cancer Society...   more »
View Article  Blogathon: An Interesting Kind of Thing, If You're Interested in That Kind of Thing



Now that blogging is attracting so much interest - not only in popular culture but also in the nonprofit sector - I suppose that it's inevitable that I keep hearing about Blogathon 2005 as a fundraising project...   more »
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Growing Enthusiasm for Online Tools for Civic Engagement in Massachusetts




In recruiting a diverse pool of new civic leaders, we needn't look exclusively at members of the rising generation, but it would certainly be a mistake to leave them out.  And if we want to engage this cohort, we need to meet them where they are. More and more, that place is online.

These reflections are inspired by the recent "What's Next?" Seminar presented by the Boston Foundation...
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Why You Need to Download and Read the eRider Starter Kit


The
eRider Starter Kit, which was created by Teresa Crawford and the Tactical Technology Collective with help from the global eRider community, has just been released as a free downloadable resource.  I strongly recommend it to members of the nonprofit and philanthropic community everywhere.

But first, a little bit about eRiders...
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View Article  A Nonprofit Organization That Upholds the Freedom to Blog


On Tuesday, I attended a fascinating presentation by Julien Pain, who staffs the Internet Freedom Desk of Reporters Without Borders. The latter is an international nonprofit/ngo that defends freedom of the press. Reports Without Borders is concerned about cyber-dissidents - individuals who are imprisoned or subjected to other sanctions when they go online to write about political and social issues...
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View Article  It's Turtles All the Way Down



How far down do we need to explore, in order to use a technology successfully? How do we learn how to learn?...   more »
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Career Paths and Career Ladders in Nonprofit Technology

  

Emily, a recent college graduate, posted a query to the Information Systems Forum about career paths in nonprofit technology on Thursday.  This has prompted me to reflect once again on how we don't do enough to create career paths (i.e., entry level opportunities) and career ladders (i.e., opportunities for increased responsibility and a living wage) for those who want to enter this field...   more »
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New and Improved: Global Voices Online




As I've previously mentioned in my blog, I'm convinced that the future for nonprofits lies in aggregations of diverse blogs that focus on a mission or theme, rather than showcasing a single organization or point of view.  In other words, if you're investing in the blogmarket, you shouldn't bet on my blog - you should bet on web sites such as Global Voices Online...
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Let Someone Else Be the Beta Tester, But Keep an Eye on H2O Playlist



The logic of H20 Playlist is intriguing:  if untold numbers of netizens are willing to spend untold hours classifying their knowledge, online resources, digital music, and web links to share online with strangers, then with the right tool (and a certain amount of persuasion) educators of all kinds can share their curricula, syllabi, and other resources.

I see this as a tool that has great potential for nearly every mission-based organization that includes education in its long term strategy...
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