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Notes from Mari Smith Facebook Changes Webinar: Privacy Settings and A New Metric – People Talking About

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It isn’t all private or all public – it’s a continuum. Facebook’s new changes (and Google +) gives us a couple of shades of gray. You need to think about what you’re sharing and who you are sharing with. Also, a few insights about the what the changes mean for Facebook pages. Sharing Philosophy.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

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Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest. These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . The Guitar Center “makes the gift of music available to people across the country by providing resources for music education programs. Wish You Well Foundation. Mazda Foundation.

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The Science Behind Going Viral

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blender company Blendtec’s sales shot up more than 700% a few years ago after videos of the CEO blending things like iPhones spread like wildfire. Lots of people share videos of funny kitties, so cats must be the reason things go viral. There’s a science behind why people talk and share. Get people talking about you?

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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

ASU Lodestar Center

This post is about the way people write the word nonprofit. But for some people, the way you write this word says something about you. As told in the 12th chapter of the “Book of Judges” in the Christian bible, the Ephramites tried to blend in with the locals as they were fleeing the country. Should be interesting, anyway.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The film that lite the tinderbox of protests is disgusting and insulting to a people of Islamic faith and yes social media can accelerate protests and violent responses quickly (as it can accelerate social good.) “When people who were born and raised in dictatorships. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet.

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And if your organization finds itself in the middle of groundswell or if there is a major news event or a public relations crisis happens and it is being discussed on Twitter or other social media spaces, your CEO can join it without having to get up to speed. This is a good example of a "Blended profile.".

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The Cirque De Soleil Model: “Entertaining” Doesn’t Have to Mean Low-Brow

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Last week, there was a New York Times article about the recently opened Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Madame Tussauds attractions in Times Square. It’s easy to look at something like Ripley’s and think: that’s what’s the public wants. Ripley’s is not the ultimate manifestation of what the public wants.

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