Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: "How do we get to know and understand how a particular tool can help us meet our goals, but not let the tool drive our decisions?" Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool. The alternative? A forest fire.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

.)" The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | DigiActive.org - "Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever. " Penguin Day Agenda - pd.aspirationtech.org - Are you heading to the NTC this month?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Here's what the author said: "Funny, I clicked on this post from Twitter expecting a realistic conversation about the limitations of social media tools. IMO, social media tools are pretty poor at changing anything that takes more than one or two mouse-clicks. Most change, unfortunately, doesn't happen at the end of a mouse-click.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The power of sharing allows individuals to come together in great “clouds” of activity, and allows them to focus their activity around a single task. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people. Without that constant activity, the cloud dissipates, evaporating into nothing at all.

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