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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Atlasien of Upside-Down Adoption said she was going to become involved in a local organization for immigrant rights.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news?

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Getting It Right at the GEO Conference in Seattle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. When so many grantmakers have adopted the practice, and for so many good reasons, there’s strong motivation for their reexamining the basis of their resistance.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Those that stuck around are beginning to reap the rewards of early adoption. That includes the time necessary to research and write material and to secure images, videos, and graphics, as well the time necessary to manage and edit guest bloggers. To blog effectively, a nonprofit must allocate a minimum of 10 hours per week to blogging.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They own YouTube (third most trafficked website globally) and Blogger (the fifth most trafficked)… and Picassa, Picnik, Orkut, Gmail, Chrome, etc. Being an early adopter is an important strategy in and of itself, but not at the expense of the communities you already have. Sign up for Google+.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Networked Nonprofit in Boston: A Story of Contrasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We met face-t0-face at a social media event in 2008, but that was the only time I had interacted her face-to-face. Dancing on Different Sides of the Adoption Curve. We are seeing the use of social media broaden beyond the early adopters and becoming more mainstream. Yet, there is still some resistance.

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