Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Causes Ditches MySpace: Don't Put All Your Fundraising Relationship Eggs in One Third Party, Proprietary Basket!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Late last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to join the cause on Facebook. . One wonders what the motivation was ?

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Nonprofits and MySpace Roundup Inspired By Solidariti

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She writes about a nonprofit portal in Myspace called Nonprofit Organizations MySpace. It offers tips on how not-for-profits can effectively use MySpace for fundraising and/or campaigning. It looks like a good place to start if you want to find examples of nonprofits with a presence in MySpace and get ideas. Save Darfur.

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MySpace and Nonprofits: A couple of articles on how-to

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A couple of good articles about how nonprofits are using myspace and some dos and don'ts this week. I have a myspace site but I haven't done any deep experimination. MySpace and Political Campaigns Joshua Levy at the Personal Democracy Forum wrote about the use of MySpace for political campaigns and by advocacy organizations.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

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Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.??? s not easy!

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

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I recently did an interview with a HBS student who was researching MySpace and Second Life (looking at Second Life from the standpoint of social networking). Do I want to be able to recontact this person for something in the future? How might I harvest this contact in the future? I asked him about LinkedIn and numbers of contacts.

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Think Social Awards To Be Announced November 19th

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Jamie Kantrowitz, former MySpace & MySpace Music executive. Stephanie Agresta – Executive Vice President, Global Director of Digital Strategy and Social Media, Porter Novelli. Colin Nagy – Partner, Attention. Paul Meyer, Co-founder Voxiva. Good luck to everyone who has nominated!

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Which Social Network Use Base Is More Altruistic?

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Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?