Staff spend all their mojo getting them up and going and then watering them, like seedlings, as they bloom into full-blown advocacy, outreach, or fundraising projects in a matter of weeks. Sarah Durham, Big Duck. We're all nerds when it comes to new media. After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games. Ah, Joust. sure do.

And some nonprofits like Big Love, Little Hearts who have invested time into using FourSquare have had some success raising money and using it to promote advocacy campaigns. Facebook who now has over 500 million users, launched Facebook Places a geo-location service that will now compete with location apps like FourSquare. Try these tips.

Hear from technologists and nonprofits on how to define and implement the ideal strategy and get advanced with metrics to make social a key component of online fundraising and advocacy campaigns. Staying within the social media world and nonprofits, there is another great panel on how social networking is changing advocacy. It's SXSW.