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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

And last week, the British Environment Agency announced it would share real-time water-level measurements taken every 15 minutes with apps that will use them to warn residents to prepare for floods caused by rising rivers. You can see some of the apps generated by the contest at civicapps.org.). Have you done it yourself? Shutterstock.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They hope to improve both the environmental impact of business (improve operations) and the business impact of the environment (improve products). Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site. Strategy documents are put in google documents or blogged, they ask for feedback via Twitter.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

So, lots of great comments there. Karen Graham: One of the comments I wanted to point out here, which actually relates a little bit more maybe to the previous slide about organization-provided technology resources, is about what happens when an employee leaves. And—oh, sorry—with this one, there was a relevant comment too.

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Training Board Members As Brand Champions on Social and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others. That seems like a silly thing to say, but I get to take creative license often. I get to use my brain to think and figure things out.

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Marc van Bree, Guest Post: Social media, money and the mission statement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Marc van Bree, editor of Dutch Perspective During last week’s League of American Orchestras conference, I was following the session on social networking on Twitter. But Facebook and Twitter have no business model! Here is an excerpt of what I commented on his post: Social networking is not “a business model.”