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Great reads from December 12th through December 13th

Amy Sample Ward

Pacific is First to Integrate Facebook and Twitter into e2Campus Emergency Notification System - Pacific University, in Forest Grove, OR, USA, is the first university in the US to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the emergency response system for alerting staff and students in times of emergency.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalwildlife. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. And for that event, Facebook Causes helped us raise the most money we’ve ever raised on social media. Organization: National Wildlife Federation.

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Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook. I found it overwhelming!

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Social Network Tracker: How to Find your Supporters on Social Networks

Care2

Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. StumbleUpon. Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. LiveJournal. Match Rate: The anticipated match rate for Social Network Tracker data append is 70% to 80%.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

Did you know that the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people who are 35 years old and older ?). Search on Facebook too to see if anyone has already created a Facebook Page for your cause or organization. Search on Facebook too to see if anyone has already created a Facebook Page for your cause or organization.

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The general overview: Friend of A Friend Model: 2002 Let's connect on LinkedIn so we can help each other with referrals. Facebook: 2007 "We own the social graph, you bring the objects." How to make that social stream of objects the are flowing via Facebook more findable (at least for myself). A community tag stream.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. If you want to build an online community for knowledge or skill sharing, using social network tools like Ning or LinkedIN will help you get there.