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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly. Ning allows nonprofits to launch their own social networking communities.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. s also a Blogger blog for OpenSocial. a public benefit???) and not for Google???s s benefit only. s new Google Sites platform.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits.