Judi Sohn

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If Google+ was a comfy couch at a conferenceā€¦

Judi Sohn

Is it a Facebook killer? One difference is apparent to me: On Facebook, your posts are shared as widely as possible by default and you can take an extra step to exclude people. One difference is apparent to me: On Facebook, your posts are shared as widely as possible by default and you can take an extra step to exclude people.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Chase gives $5 million to nonprofits based solely on the votes of regular folk on Facebook. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities. That a local organization is more deserving than a national one? On paper, it seemed simple enough. " pleas.

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. She really understood the organizations. Absolutely positively not! Why did we do this? She got it.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Chase gives $5 million to nonprofits based solely on the votes of regular folk on Facebook. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities. That a local organization is more deserving than a national one? On paper, it seemed simple enough. " pleas.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

If you're interested in Salesforce stuff and you just landed from your planet, Chatter is like Facebook in your corporate CRM/database. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great for other organizations. Think about what you love about Twitter or Facebook, and it's mostly all here. They aren't just on Facebook, or just on Twitter.

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When did our Senate move to Asia?

Judi Sohn

It's just the real senate.gov site in an iframe (loaded on a Mac after logging out of Facebook and Twitter, of course): More fun to take a look at the who.is - Registered by a Turkish registrar and name server in Hong Kong. I guess the idea is to get unsuspecting organizations to actually make the change, and then switch for spam/ad site?

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What Google+ users can learn from nonprofits

Judi Sohn

Sure they have tweaks in technology to work through to make stream organization and circle management more intuitive. Established social sharing model (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc.): The bottom line allows the organization to serve more. Effective nonprofits know it’s not about them.

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