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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Citizen-Powered Response.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Perhaps if DimDim were also to release a version that integrated with Skype … I can’t figure out from looking around their site whether it is cross-platform enough to share desktops, but I signed up for the beta, so I guess I’ll test it out. And also an integration with SugarCRM. Now things are getting interesting.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Some of the benefits of cloud computing are obvious - many of the programs noted above are free (that's good), version upgrades are instantaneous and don't require you to contact an IT department and you can access your files from any computer. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Some of the benefits of cloud computing are obvious - many of the programs noted above are free (that's good), version upgrades are instantaneous and don't require you to contact an IT department and you can access your files from any computer. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 [.].

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. Twitter still has a small user base compared to all those who are generally “online&# - compared to those with email, for example. A couple of examples: Recently, Rep. More than 3.5

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