Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

This is why companies allow employees to make personal phone calls, why they underwrite education and training, and invest to create pleasant environments. So, the same will prove true for Facebook and whatever other social streaming applications emerge. Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Facebook isn't just all hype. You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

And many more mashups and applications available here. There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. Which means: You don't need to have the same application open as someone else to communicate with them. There's the basic site.

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See3

JANUARY 29, 2009

Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. As we looked over one particular application, someone asked, “Hasn’t this project been tried before?”. Which brings us to Twitter. Usually, it’s 1 in 500.).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. But that’s already sounding like the grandiose hype you read about Second Life or virtual worlds. Eliminating Geographic Separation.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Some over-hype it as "magical" and "transformative." There are now 140,000 applications available for the iPhone and most of them are expected to run on the iPad. It could spawn innovative interactive applications that support collaborative learning. Personally, I'm bullish on the product.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

In all of the current hype about "apps", it's important to remember that a web browser is itself an app. This has obvious implications for nonprofits hoping increased website traffic will lead to more donations, volunteers, and engagement. The browser is not the Internet.

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