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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out? Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood.

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Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement

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Launching in February 2004 for students at Harvard University it quickly became a popular site and expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy Leagues, and Stanford University. Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement. Check out the slides – Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement.

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Social Network Demographics: Is there a middle ground between email is for old folks, social networking sites are for young people?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A question I'm often asked is " What are the demographics of social networking users ?" " and what is behind that question is the need for some information to decide what social media strategy is right for their organization's goals and audiences and further, social networking or not?

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Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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The Big 3: SEO, Email and Social

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And don’t forget to produce content on a regular basis so Google continues to crawl your site. Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Social media is no longer seen as a fad or waste of time or thing that young people do.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

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Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts.

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Socially Networked Puppet Show

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just had to get that out before I connect to social networking. And just for giggles, I made a flickr slide show out them here.). I also discovered that he knew Jinja (John Weeks) and Jinja has a link to Sovanna Phum on his site. Our whole family attended the performance in Providence, RI.