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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I have social media ennui. I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. I’ve been using social media to actively promote my new science fiction books.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Nonprofit Technology Link Love

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Next up, let’s see how the details of migration (web, mail, address book, etc. The next step was to get online.

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