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NTEN Staff Celebrate 2013: Here's to You!

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NTEN staff in the Portland office headed to the Peculiarium yesterday afternoon for our holiday party. Lindsay will be staying with NTEN through the 2014 NTC so you don''t have to say goodbye to her yet. You''ll have to excuse the washed out photo; we didn''t think to check it and take one with flash. (I Here''s to all of you!

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Managing a Flash Crisis: How to Handle Online Criticism of Your Organization

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At Epic, we’ve given it a name: a flash crisis. A flash crisis happens when a negative post, comment, blog, or video goes viral and the winds of chatter whip it up into a firestorm. As social media evolves, every drop of news, hype, or rumor can cause a consumer reaction.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What makes it usable Newer applications are using AJAX and Flash, to give the kinds of functionalities we’ve come to expect with desktop applications – so it’s just like having a desktop application with our data – except it’s “in the cloud&# not on our desk.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine. I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Terms and Trends in DIY and Open Source Online Maps

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You could embed a simple Google map on your website or you could invest in a Flash-based mapping tool. Online maps can demonstrate the breadth of large movements or highlight grassroots work at a very local level. In ancient times (5-6 years ago), there were two main ways to visualize data with online maps.