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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

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. s not easy!

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. He shared his current thinking about Open Social and how it influences the here and now: OpenSocial means something different to marketers, though. Platform??? Container???

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Know when to respond and when not -- pay attention to people's tone and influence. Keep an internal list of your repeat offenders.