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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? Let's take a look. And if you???re

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NetSquared Meetup Roundup - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Ana Maria Cuenca from NGOConnect shared that in her experience visitors only read 160 words of your website before deciding whether or not its worth looking at further. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The nights theme was Pimp My Nonprofit as the wonderful ladies from CODEPINK shared their website with the group. All rights reserved.

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Experimentation: Key to Happy Nonprofit Tech Adoption, and Life?

Have Fun - Do Good

Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. What do you want to learn and experiment with doing? Ultimately, isn't it a great strategy for life?

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Pie Ranch, Sugar High Friday and A Pie That Evokes Your Dreams

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2005, we began our youth education programs, inviting school groups out to experience a working farm. The round-up of pie posts will be published on Vampituity on February 29, 2008. She explained that she was inspired by the Mission Pie she'd had last year at Net Tuesday San Francisco , an event I produce for NetSquared.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. I totally agree with the point about multi-channel campaigns - it has been my experience too with Facebook and other social media tools (as documented in these case studies ). As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce? And if you???re

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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