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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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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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Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.
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This online community, Engage365 , is a place to network and share knowledge about how to integrate the use of social media for events. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. It has 400 members.
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. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Also, I had major brain blip and forgot the name of the polling app that they mentioned.
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uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. Aardvark says that by knowing who in your extended social network is available at any given time, it can tap into social knowledge - the real-time web of people.
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