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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? The Social Actions project began in 2006. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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Personalization for Better Engagement

Forum One

For example, you can make use of Optimizly as a cloud-based solution, or Smart Content as a CMS-specific approach. As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. In year one, they received a small batch of submissions, and they were terribly disappointed.

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

However, he did stress that even nonprofit organizations should follow the same rules as any other entity, and in the video he elaborates on certain examples where organizations may want to tread carefully in regard to copyright. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The buzz has been going full blast about Google's Open Social API, from TechCrunch to ZDNET. The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?