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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Giving Good Poke.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

LIve blogging from the Serious Games Conference - usual disclaimers apply to typos, etc. Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. Will clean up later. How can we take it into the digital world. 700,000 have played the game.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. now off to integrate it into my slides show for my session at the Bridge Conference on Tuesday. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. See Marshall Kirkpatrick’s nice overview of this on the SplashCast blog. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » An Open API is the New Black [.]