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The Perils of Popularity

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I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi called this "just a social graph" (or just a social network). The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 In A Museum? 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

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2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Why Has Fundraising Online Shifted so Quickly? He raised $28 million online, of which, “90% [of the contributions] were under $100, with over 250,000 contributors.”

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. The campaign.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Harry: A Green Geek.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

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The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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