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22 Must-Circle Nonprofits on Google+

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook. Like Twitter, you have to post or share content frequently to get exposure in the feed since there is no Edgerank-like algorithm to filter out (boring) posts/tweets. Greenpeace Brasil. Habitat for Humanity Ireland. KQED Science. Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter requires a time investment that many small nonprofits simply do not have. Small nonprofits can barely invest the time it takes to manage a Facebook Page and Twitter Profile. Not all, but most small nonprofits should have a Twitter Profile and should be tweeting or retweeting a minimum of once a day. Twitter $Cashtags.

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Check it out!

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BlogHers Act and Other Ways to Help Myanmar Cyclone Victims

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global Voices, South Asia Editor, Mong Palatino, offers this round up of what blogs in the region are reporting, including these eye witness accounts. The photos, videos, and blog reports are giving us vivid citizen accounts. Right now, thousands and thousands of women and children in Myanmar, need help. (I That took me like 15-20 minutes.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs. He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He

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More on Burma - Protests in Real Life and Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set. from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

It quickly leads to a domino effect: college kids walk around campus without shoes to show their support for the campaign; celebrities endorse this cause and plug it on their TalkShoes, Twitter feeds, or Facebook pages. Greg Mortensen, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute (CAI), is a genius in AP.