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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd (@ zephoria ) says though experts once thought the internet would help destroy racial barriers, “all of the divisions that exist in every day life, including those by race and class, actually re-emerge online” Excerpt from Social Media for Social Good : .

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Experimenting with Facebook Landing Pages

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Back in February, I saw a great post from Mashable on how to build a landing page for Facebook and instantly thought of it as a great way to promote an upcoming fundraising event. While setting up the app in Facebook has several steps, the biggest piece of this project is to create the HTML that you want displayed.

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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. Then in September 2006 Facebook made the move to open their community to everyone (before you had to have a “ edu&# e-mail address to use Facebook). I was very reluctant to move over to Facebook. It was ugly.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments. If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture. Not surprisingly, their advice leaned heavily on social media.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

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an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). October 2007 (14). September 2007 (14).

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: You Say Drupal, I Say Joomla. Can't We All Just Get Along?

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In other news, Lindy Dreyer has been working on a series of posts about organizational Social Media policies , including one addressing your organization's official presence on external existing networks (like LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter). I'll introduce each member of this year's class of NTENnies in these weekly member round-ups.

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