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Social Networks to Replace Email? NOT!!!

Care2

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9

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Email is Dead? Long Live Email

Care2

Email grew 21% between 2008-2009. million people in August of 2008 according to the Nielsen Company. Social Network demographics can be skewed. What percentage are really “active users&# and communicate via social networks all day? In August 2009, 276.9 million people. million people.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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An interesting call from danah boyd

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 An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. know danah boyd. Open-access is right.

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. So, I was intrigued with a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites.

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Useful Stats Every Nonprofit Should Know Moving into 2010

Care2

The Rise of Politicians Using Social Media. Are politicians finally understanding the value of being social via social networks? According to Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, Internet use among Latino adults rose by 10 percentage points, from 54% to 64% between 2006-2008.

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The Impact of Connectivity in the Future: Everything Is Connected, Cows will Tweet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. These are mobile, sensors everywhere (wearable technology), location data, social networks, and big data and machine learning. ” Next up was Dave Evans, Chief Futurist at Cisco.

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