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Extra-organizational Activists & Nonprofits Using the Social Web for Their Cause

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As I mentioned last week, I am talking with a marketing class at New College's Green MBA program on Sunday about how nonprofits can use social media for marketing. Green LA Girl and City Hippy raise awareness about Fair Trade coffee by launching the Starbucks Challenge in October 2005. on Answers, networking on Yahoo!

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This just in.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

social bookmarking genre, has been acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo's last big acquisition was Flickr , the industry leading photo-sharing site, which like del.icio.us, uses tagging as a way to classify and retrieve images. You can read announcements of the acquisition on the Yahoo search blog here , and on Joshua's del.icio.us

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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

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Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv and OurMedia.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. Technovist tells us how to be a green blogger and Emily's World gives a great list of environmental blogs.

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Nonprofit Blog Exchange

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Daniel's blog was recommended to me through a great list serv for anyone interested in volunteers and volunteer program managment, Cybervpm at Yahoo! The Cabrini Green neighborhood has a high concentration of poverty, many people living on welfare, and strong street gang involvement. We call it the Tutor/Mentor Connection.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That way, we let Flickr and Yahoo worry about developing the technology while we???re I routinely bookmark and comment on environmental news, green blogs, and stories about sustainability and alternative energy technology. s nearly identical to organic search traffic ??? t we just use Flickr???s Stop: Hammer-Time! StumbleUpon.