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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The visual above is a social network. Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America.

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Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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The Perils of Fake News, Coordinated Misinformation, and Social Media Addiction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It makes me miss the optimism from a decade ago about the rise of social media and social network platforms. The article describes the great lengths that Silicon Valley insiders are going to disconnect from social media and their mobile phones. Makes you wonder what they know that the average user does not?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Nail Online Giving With These Tips and Tools

Get Fully Funded

Donors can donate to the classroom project of their choice and then invite social network friends, fans and followers to join their efforts. The biggest problem with Facebook is that you can’t thank people properly and you don’t get donor information unless the donor agrees to it.

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How to Create Real Relationships at a Networking Event

AccelEvents

While simultaneously vague and completely obvious, networking events are about building a personal relationship and growing a personal network. Whatever the reason, people go to social networking and business networking events with the hopes of meeting a new person, or persons, with shared interests. .