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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

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Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging Recap

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Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti. The team behind Project Hope Art believes that photos of the children impacted by their art projects move supporters to act. It employs volunteer artists who use the arts as a tool for healing.

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TechSoup Volunteers During Data Center Move

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A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

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Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. To connect with and provide help and hope to children and adults with disabilities and the families who love them; ??? I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. I know that you are the mother of two young children, how do you balance being an activist, nonprofit software developer, and (a day job too!) I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting.

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Free Ranger Rick

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. Ranger Rick Raccoon, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation and logical representative for the voice to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future has been silenced. Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

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Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. "Children's Health" or "Education"), and the duration for the grant. I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post. That's the only thing missing.

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