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Nonprofit Social Media Smarts: Internal or External Social Networking Tools?

NTEN

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Use Social Media to Boost Success for Events and Conferences

NTEN

"Very rarely is a new invention so innovative that it replaces what came before," says Tom Lehman, founder of Lehman Associates and author of the Lehman Reports™ industry studies. This is certainly true for social media. At their core, associations are communities in which people of like interests and goals gather.

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Yesterday in Washington, DC, Target's senior fundraising analyst Paige Grainger gave a terrific "state of the nonprofit industry" talk, which summarized key findings from Target's latest, 2011 Index. Paige spoke at a luncheon that Care2 sponsored of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW).

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Networked Nonprofit Update: November

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meanwhile in down at action camp in San Antonio, Texas, I heard through Twitter that copies of the Networked Nonprofit were offered in a raffle. Networked Nonprofit at PRSA in Washington, DC. I met “ichi&# virtually when he let me know about a Netsquared Japan meet up featuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. These laws prohibit financial transactions with individuals and organizations associated with terrorism. They do work to reverse the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control.

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. So, I was intrigued with a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites.

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Webinar: Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies

Care2

And if you're not using an integrated approach, with email as part of that strategy, you're probably missing out on some huge opportunities to develop deeper engagement, identify superactivists and superconnectors, and use a network-centric approach to grow and cultivate your community more efficiently.