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How the World Affairs Council Broadcasts Globally with Social Media

Tech Soup

TS: Which social networks are you currently most active on? AP: We're most active on Twitter and Facebook. AP: One of our most successful campaigns is attached to an annual documentary photography exhibition, Global Visions. TS: How do you decide which social networks to invest time and resources into — and which not?

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A network mindset means exercising leadership through active participation. It means communicating through a network model, rather than a broadcast model—finding where the conversations are happening and taking part. It means sharing by default. At SF Goodwill they created a Blog Squad to kick things off.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. so that it might be revised.

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Chicago Symphony Social Media Strategy: What happens when people outside your organization set up a presence on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got pulled in to help create weekly Web content for the broadcast, because of my interest in and knowledge of HTML programming and the Web. Otherwise, there was no active campaign besides me telling my friends to join and those friends telling their friends to join and so on. That interest of programming started at an early age.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also had some back end tools that provided details on the usage and activity; for example out of 359 accounts set up, 177 actually made it to Pathable and did some activity (that is 49%)– and we have graphs! Twitter was the biggest social media activity, absolutely no surprise. Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this!