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Filtering Your Feeds: Marshall's Yahoo Pipes Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why would you ever want to use Yahoo Pipes you might be wondering? That's where Yahoo Pipes can really help you. Here's an example of a Yahoo pipe that Marnie Webb put together that tracks nonprofit technology resources. Are you using RSS to listen, but want to know how to fine tune your listening skills?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. The official blog posts from Yahoo and Google Yodel Annecdotal Google Blog Lots of folks covering the announcement: Read/Write Web FaceReviews (includes analysis) Examples of apps built on opensocial (ugh, Shelfari).

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Be A Better Inspiration: Vote For Beth's Blog Readers on Yahoo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just entered you, dear readers, in the Be A Better Inspiration Contest over at Yahoo. The contest is about telling a story about someone's good deed on behalf of an nonprofit organizations. The first thing that came to mind was the extraordinary generosity that you all showed in supporting the campaign to send Leng Sopharath to college.

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It's Official: Sharing Foundation Raises $100,000 and wins Network for Good Charity Badge/Yahoo Competition!!!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Three weeks ago, using what I learned from my first personal fundraising campaign , I launched a second campaign to raise money for the Sharing Foundation education programs using the Network For Good Charity Badge and entering the Yahoo! For Good competition which would double the amount raised by the winner.

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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I met Joshua Schacter in 2005 at the Berkman Center and heard him speak shortly before delicious was acquired by Yahoo.

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Five Minutes and Ten Bucks Can Leverage Yahoo Matching Dollars and Send Over Thousand Poor Cambodian Youngsters to School!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Sharing Foundation has the opportunity to receive matching dollars from Yahoo via the Network For Good Charity Badge program. Here's how it works: Yahoo! If our campaign has the most individual donors, Yahoo will match what we raise. This could make a big difference for thousands of children in Cambodia.

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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It comes from Apple’s Silicon Valley neighbor, Yahoo. The program is called How Good Grows , a holiday event that is part of Yahoo’s CSR program. They want to encourage and highlight small acts of kindness that can trigger big ripples and at the same time drive awareness and adoption of a new feature in Yahoo!