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Booksharian Heroes Hit 40,000

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare.org just hit a milestone by reaching 40,000 accessible books in our collection. This is always a cause for celebration by our team, recognizing the incredible amount of work involved in bringing each book to our Bookshare.org members by our volunteers and collection development staff. She Turns on her computer.

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Don't Register for Shelfari: It Spams Your Address Book

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've gotten too many messages from colleagues that have the subject line "Do We Read The Same Books" and it encourages you to sign up for a social software called Shelfari. The "bacn" from this program was sent to a listserv, and it annoyed people on the list.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. I also buy a lot of books. One which they may not is LS-TECH, the tech listserv for legal services, which is quite a large slice of the national nonprofit sector. Attend conferences.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

In that scenario, nonprofit workers feel like technology is something they have to deal with to do the "real work," not something that can make their work lives and their organization better at meeting its mission (which is what NTEN believes, so strongly they wrote a book about it ). to get success stories. is going end-of-life!"

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Research Friday: A Case for Content Curation

ASU Lodestar Center

Beyond the Center, there are also dozens of listservs, blogs, and electronic "hallways" devoted to philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and management, volunteerism, and other facets of the social sector. Here at the Center, we offer several different informational sources.

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Whats Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile: I'm A Creator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Social Technographics concept is discussed in depth in Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff's new book " Groundswell " that I have been reading over the past two weeks since it arrived from Amazon. It is a valuable way to think how your nonprofit's target audience fits into the social media landscape.

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