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SXSW: Future of Social Networks

Amy Sample Ward

Social networks will be like air.&#. 3 things need to make social networks like air: Identity - who are you? w/ openid you pick where to put your context and info. pick your friends once - social networking fatigue. Evaluate where social makes sense. Presentation by Charlene Li at SXSW.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It seems that a room helps with the noise levels because people have to consciously add info to a given room. As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. So it's more selective.

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

To keep posted, share ideas and promote through your networks:Twitter #tag for this upcoming visit will be #incgen11 or Email cy@hkcss.org.hk Feel free to suggest activities, we can alter and modify this programme according to the people and organisations who want to join in.

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Facebook Pulls a Quick Change on Custom Landing Tabs Policy

Wild Apricot

The option to choose any landing tab besides Wall and Info had suddenly disappeared – for all but the very largest Facebook Pages set up by big business. Tags: General News Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Social networking Facebook Non-profit Communications social media. read more ).

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HOW TO: Create a Mobile Website for Your Nonprofit for $8 a Month

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And on that note, make sure you link to the mobile versions of your social networking profiles on your mobile website, such as m.twitter.com/nonprofitorgs , m.youtube.com/nonprofitorgs , etc. For more info, see Pricing Information. But m.domain.org is the best practice, such as m.twitter.com , m.youtube.com , etc.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

It seems that you have to have an organizational presence on facebook in order for the project page on Jumo to work/look right – I put in my facebook ID, thinking it was verifying my association as the admin on the organizational account, but instead it put my photo and info as the organization’s!