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• 09 June 2008

  Social Media in Plain English: Video 

  It turns out that ice cream and social media have a lot in common -- at least, according to the latest video by Lee Lefever of Common Craft, Social Media in Plain English. Using a deceptively simple paper and whiteboard technique, Common Craft specializes in short, amusing, and easy-to-understand videos that explain complex ideas. This latest video focuses on basics of Social Media: "new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say." Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 8:30 PM by Rebecca | 0 Comments Filed under: General non-profit interest, Humor, nptech, Social networking, Video, instructional video

• 17 March 2008

  LOLseals taps Pop Culture Trends and Web 2.0 Tools 

  For an example of how simple web tools and social networking sites can be used to raise awareness of a nonprofit's cause, LOLseals is worth a close look. It's a new photo caption contest from the Humane Society of the United States, blending pop culture trends and web 2.0 tools in a low-cost campaign that practically begs to go viral. Read More... Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 6:51 PM by Rebecca | 1 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Humor, nptech, Marketing, Web 2.0, Non-profit Communications

• 24 December 2007

  Making Fundraising Fun and Easy  

  Copyright, Grantland Enterprises; www.grantland.net . Used with permission. May not be reproduced in any format. Read More... Posted Monday, December 24, 2007 2:10 PM by Creative Apricot | 0 Comments Filed under: Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Humor, nptech

• 05 October 2007

  The rewards of working in the nonprofit sector :-) 

  Copyright, Grantland Enterprises; www.grantland.net . Used with permission. May not be reproduced in any format. Read More... Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 7:13 PM by Creative Apricot | 0 Comments Filed under: Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Humor, nptech

• 26 June 2007

  LOL nptech: much needed comic relief for the nonprofit technology community 

  Need all the humor you can get? Then head on over to the fun and inspiring LOLnptech.org website. Thanks to Jeff Tuller, (with encouragement from Allan Benamer and Deborah Elizabeth Finn) for creating this humorous blog. Filled with funny pictures from public Flickr streams this blog is for anyone who wants to escape the real world and have some fun! We also do our share of nptech humor here at Wild Apricot. On our blog, we often post funny cartoons that puts a little spin of humor into issues facing Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:05 PM by Creative Apricot | 1 Comments Filed under: Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Wild Apricot, Humor, nptech