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Eight Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make When They First Join Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most of these mistakes can be avoided by simply spending 10 minutes setting up your Twitter Profile or by getting some Twitter training. 1) Following others without having yet uploaded an avatar. Many will also think you’re a spammer and will simply ignore your profile or block you.

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Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and MySpace Accounts

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Thousands of nonprofits haven’t logged into their MySpace profiles in months, or even a year or more. Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). They want a human behind the avatar. The majority have moved on to Facebook and Twitter.

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Creativity, Collaboration & Community - Three Words to Sum up the TAFA Conference

Connection Cafe

On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference. Twitter feed from the @tafaconference.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Western audiences came to know Iran through the 2009 election, the internet had been the place where you could find politics happening inside Iran when in person it was very hard there. I think underlying slacktivism isn’t enough – you can’t just turn your profile green. It can be broad but shallow.

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