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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” There were slightly less crossed-legs and arms and more curiosity and questions like, “What are the best practices?

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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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

The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. s the secret sauce?

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Tools for individuals are great, but what we’ve seen in 2008 is that the tools that individuals like the most and use the most are the ones that create the most dynamic communities. Tools like Twitter, FriendFeed and social networking. What was your favorite innovation from 2008? Community Movement.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. I’m not joining any social networks like this anymore. at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. Walk right under it.

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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our earlier attempts at getting a Wikipedia page up were focused on a page about TuDiabetes, the diabetes social network we run in English. The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. But if you come to think of it, it’s what keeps the site as encyclopedic as it can hope to be.

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