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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. In the long term, if the whole web 2.0

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Women Rule Social Networks

Care2

Did you know that women also dominate social networks? According to a Pew study, in 2008 women comprised 53% of social networking site users. Over the past two years, women have increased their social networking usage and now comprise 56% of the social networking consumer base.

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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. These groups now claim about 30% of the site’s user base, according to third-party statistics website Quantcast.com. The birth of social networking on a mass scale was messy and chaotic, and at times fear and paranoia ran amok.

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What You Need to Know About Nonprofit Social Network Use

NTEN

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

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join.

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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. Elgg is the open source social network management system. It’s a really great tool for creating very rapid mockups of sites that you are working on. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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