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MAY 17, 2011

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.)

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APRIL 19, 2010

As you might know, almost a year ago, I made a big change in my use of social media – I segregated my social graph – work related stuff moved to LinkedIn and Twitter, and personal friends only on Facebook. There are things I really like about Twitter, Identi.ca, Buzz, etc. I won’t be tweeting really anymore.

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JUNE 7, 2009

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). Of course, everyone is still on Twitter, and Linked in, etc., Now of course it used to be that all of my Facebook “friends&# were other nptech early adopters.

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JUNE 7, 2009

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). Of course, everyone is still on Twitter, and Linked in, etc., Now of course it used to be that all of my Facebook “friends&# were other nptech early adopters.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. Very few people I care about are there (and they twitter too, anyway.).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). And I'll still be cooking, so maybe, if you're in the Bay Area, instead of "liking" a Facebook post, you'll come by for soup. :-). Spirituality.

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APRIL 21, 2012

If you are a facebook friend, follow me on twitter , or friend me on instagram, you'll get to see photos and hear about where I've been and where I'm going. I'll be mostly camping, with my new cool tent , and staying with friends and family. I'll also probably do a fair bit of blogging as well.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

More recently, facebook and twitter were considered likely candidates for killing it off. Also, of course, lots of people are beginning to say – go where the people are, which is increasingly Facebook. 8) Diaspora: Diaspora is a Facebook alternative. First, spam was going to kill email.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). And I'll still be cooking, so maybe, if you're in the Bay Area, instead of "liking" a Facebook post, you'll come by for soup. :-). Spirituality.

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APRIL 21, 2012

If you are a facebook friend, follow me on twitter , or friend me on instagram, you'll get to see photos and hear about where I've been and where I'm going. I'll be mostly camping, with my new cool tent , and staying with friends and family. I'll also probably do a fair bit of blogging as well.

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. This is, of course, great news.

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JANUARY 4, 2008

There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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JULY 2, 2010

Plenty of conservative organizations use Drupal, Salesforce, online fundraising, Facebook and Twitter – using those technologies to push for ends that I am far from interested in seeing come to reality.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. Of course, without his intelligence, and desire to be involving and inclusive, it wouldn’t have happened. But there is no question that there is a technical aspect to what made this possible. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0

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MARCH 5, 2009

I won’t explain how or why to use twitter or facebook, unless you are trying to put a twitter stream into a Drupal page ( moving data, open source.) I won’t blog about fundraising or communications strategies, or campaigns, or skittles.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. 5 Jay 12.18.07

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! for writing one-page fact sheets. 4 Elisa Ortiz 11.21.07 at 7:23 pm Thanks for the link!

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AUGUST 5, 2008

I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. I echo Holly and Jack’s reliance on blogs/RSS readers, also twitter, friendfeed and professional groups and connections on Facebook. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. 3 Erin McMahon 08.08.08

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JUNE 10, 2008

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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JULY 27, 2008

at 9:57 pm I saw your post via M Stein ( east ) on Facebook – nice ideas, I would like to follow your lead and if you are up for a few Q&A would like to include you in a piece I’m working on for my tech blog I write, I can tell you more but not here! Check This List 07.28.08

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

And just like OpenSocial was a great answer to Facebook, this is a great answer to the iPhone. But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. Why is this good news for nonprofits?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). On the other hand, I’m deeply depressed because I know that most of you will never read it.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! apps out there.

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JULY 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More on Facebook July 17, 2007 Michelle Martin has a great post this week on Facebook. They have a roundup of what they are calling the 10 best Facebook apps for work.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. Elgg, a LAMP(hp) project, started it’s life as a learning platform with social network features, but has transmorgrified into a social network platform with learning features. 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. Of course, without his intelligence, and desire to be involving and inclusive, it wouldn’t have happened. But there is no question that there is a technical aspect to what made this possible. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0

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