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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. For example, for my blog I can create an index with key words organized by concept just for my blog or for all blogs. Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Organization. Information.

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook: 2007 "We own the social graph, you bring the objects." Will google set it free in 2007 ? A lthough neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets.

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The Cost of Free Technology for Nonprofits: Thoughts On Ning

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In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. Photo by Eurleif.

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I,

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.