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Despite the outstanding growth of places like Facebook and Twitter, the majority of information on the internet is still shared via e-mail. Crafting a newsletter for your organization remains to be the easiest way to get in touch with contributors and other interested parties. The age discrepancy has to be something to overcome, and in that sense, e-mail still covers the largest percentage of users worldwide. As a young person, it may be hard to remove yourself from the Twitter and Facebook dominated world, but more times than not the old ways still work the best.

Earth Week"Downloading Software" - GO GREEN from TechSoup In honor of Earth Day, we encourage you to go green and download your software donations. Downloading is 90 percent greener than shipping products and it saves manufacturing and transportation resources

This is a good article to read for those interested in managing a company, 501 c, etc., and plan on using social networking as a daily tool.

Blog posted article on Techsoup.org from 11/09.

Describes how impossible it is to shutdown internet service. I'm actually quite unconvinced that it isn't possible but would the creator give up the switch?

This one was more out of curiosity

Although this article speaks mainly about protecting yourself on a network I think it applied very well with this class. It offers many good tips and points as to precautions to take to protect yourself. These precautions are important to consider especially if any work at your non-profit or public place of employment can be completed outside of work at at perhaps a local "hot-spot". This leads me to wonder how safe the new cellphone hot-spots are.

This looks to be a really interesting way to get people connected with Nonprofits. Using your Facebook account, you hook up with Jumo to connect to organizations you care about, and maximize your potential in doing work for them. Founded in February 2010 by one of the founders of Facebook itself, Jumo is still a work in progress. It appears to be a really streamlined way to get involved, and would be an excellent way to get volunteers for any organization.

That's the downside of internet improvement...there is no hope for privacy currently. So many people never hear about these little gadget improvements but they should be news...

Quadriga Art works with nonprofits to help improve online donations by creating a more advanced technology infrastructure.

If you setup a file server at non profit this article outlines a good strategy for your files structure. The use of outside backup and a partition of disk drives should be done from the start. It is a good idea to determine what the activities will be and make the structure match to avoid over searching... Some seemingly simple structures can be a nightmare for maintenance.. A good file server setup promotes sharing which can produce efficiencies..

This is really server basics for some of the less technical but it's good advice

This outlines new technologies, in the form of mobile communications, that the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Trilogy International have collaborated on. It is now possible for global aid organizations to communicate with local agencies and individuals who may be in great need by way of text messages.

SMS phone application created for relief efforts in Haiti is going worldwide soon!

Nonprofits are turning to media such as Youtube. People could rewatch much as they like and the videos for the organizations are all in one area.

With so many organizations out there competing for attention and money, having a solid social media strategy is going to be paramount to success in the future. This Webinar looks pretty interesting, and should help to sort out some of those issues for NPOs of any size. I would be really interested to hear Brooke McMillan talk about managing the Livestrong presence online, and how they look at Social Media as a fundraising tool.

This article reveals a potential source for NPO's to recieve discounts on professional services above and beyond what our professor spoke of, like advertising, for example.

Np time is the technology, that is use for small and medium-sized nonprofits purchasing software, the biggest concern is that it don,t cost too much, but rather not buying the right technology. the smaller nonprofit lack with technology expertise and therefore, the can make bad choices on buying software.

"Real-time brain storming." "Secure & Simple." Rated by one expert as the best of three online mind mapping tools he has seen so far. App can be used to share collaborate with multiple users.

This webiste has a slideshow that teaches you what you can do for your organization. It includes how to start your organization and how to plan it out. It focuses on tactics and goals for your non profit organization.