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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.) Can it be demoted now?

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Government 2.0 and the web - what works, what doesn't, and why

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We are excited about the upcoming June 4 event, " Beyond the Hype: Government 2.0 We'll learn how different federal agencies are blogging, holding online meetings, using social media, and implementing social networks to accomplish their missions. . Stacey Young, USAID: Online Events for Microenterprise Collaboration.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action.

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Nonprofits/Web2.0, Role of Technology Steward, and Connections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools are the right fit for their organizational goals and if so some first steps to have a conversation and not get seduced by the hype. It is also a story about blogging improvisation, cross-blog conversations, listening, and entries into online collaborative writing and informal learning with professional colleagues.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Why I Use Twitter

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Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? with all of its free-speech, global-collaboration ramifications.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. immersive social space camp as. t think I???ve