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How Do You Celebrate Reaching 10,000 Fans on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. At the time, my husband was in medical school and I was going insane trying to keep myself occupied, so I started writing.

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media.

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She's Geeky: Feeling Energized, Connected, and Learning

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It's unconference style, and very supportive atmosphere for women who work in technology and also want to encourage more women to get involved. Deb Roby a BlogHer Blogger. Time to grab one of those Purple Tornado yummy cupcakes For past day and half, I've been here in Mountain View at She's Geeky. Danese Cooper , Intel.

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Live from Transparency Camp '09 in DC

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I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. I think it means nothing.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. Brian talks about how those of us active in the real-time Web experience an evaporation of attention span and our ability to digest and respond to everything that moves us. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. Registration here. What was most sexy?

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Are you going to PodCamp Boston? Cool contest with Event Brite

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PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style community UnConference. for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in New Media. I was lucky enough to participate in the first one, held for the first time from September 8-10 in Boston, Massachusetts. I learned so much and the networking was awesome.

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