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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Deanna Zandt is a blogger who writes about social media, civil society, and activism.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

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Recognizing remarkable creativity and effectiveness by non-profits across the globe, the John D. MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. An ad-hoc group of tech bloggers based in Kenya decided to do something about it. and Catherine T.

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My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Last week, I was noodling around with the idea of professional learning in a connected age : How professionals learn using social networking tools to improve their effectiveness at work. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on.

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Nonprofit Blog Tips: Welcome Woman's Day Readers!

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You've probably found your way here from a shout out Have Fun, Do Good got in the article, How to Start Your Own Charity by Sally Stich in the July 2010 issue of Woman's Day : "5. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 5 Tips to Start a Nonprofit Blog Welcome Woman's Day readers! Thin k social networking.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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How Standardize Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Measurement: Use This Grid

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than trying to write it out it thought I’d point you to the graphic blog post or Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal … I found it on Beth’s Blog where she recapped her time at Blog World Expo 2010. Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits? Meet Geoff. Negatively?