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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Flickr is the largest photo-sharing social networking community on the Web and should be your starting point for your online photo-sharing campaigns. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS, and is a very able platform for creating all sorts of great web applications. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? But now, here I am, and I’m impressed. Elgg is the open source social network management system.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits?

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What You Need to Know About Nonprofit Social Network Use

NTEN

Let's create a Ning site! No budget for a web site redesign? Ah, 2008, you are missed. Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work.

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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. It helps to get a copy of a book like Wikipedia: The Missing Manual , but you don’t need it as much these days as you used to back in 2008 when it first came out. In the world of Web 2.0, Last few tips. this is as close to a marathon as it gets.

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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. In true form, it has a web site ( OpenSocial.org ) built on Google???s a public benefit???) and not for Google???s s benefit only.

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