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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   Share Blog Action Day posts in Google Reader.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

You can click through to the actions and content without changing the page you are on – just flipping through the popup notification window itself. There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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Healthy and Productive Nonprofit Meetings: What Does the Research Say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. Andrew Knight and Markus Baer of Washington University conducted a study on stand-up meetings versus sit-down meetings , rating the ability of participants to work together, share ideas, and produce quality work. How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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The Slacktivist Debate Continues

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Flickr photo: KayCey97007 I find it highly ironic that so much energy has been spent debating slacktivism. The best part is, we're not just talking about this in our little corner of the universe. Don't you think the shallow actions of 99 of your supporters might be just as important as that one deep action by your biggest fan?

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

Toms Aguilar , Progressive Technology Project; Yee Won Chong , Fundraising Consultant; Nadia Khastagir , Design Action Collective; and Chris Tuttle , Tuttle Communications. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Here''s what they said.

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Don’t Abuse Self-Care at Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. This assessment from the University of Buffalo Self-Care Starter Kit helps you identify how some habits create more stress that might lead to burnout. The second way is to practice self-care with habits that create more stress for yourself. You can learn more about this free webinar and register here.

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Internet Strategy, Genocide Prevention

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In particular, he reflected on five strategic uses of the internet which, when combined intelligently, have influenced the actions of the entire US Congress. Says Mark, "GI-Net is creating a permanent and powerful anti-genocide constituency in the United States, and essential to this is the innovative use of technology.".