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Great reads from around the web on July 29th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. Nonprofit organizations that have been early adopters of social media are exploring, like Momsrising, carefully. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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What about Pscyho Socialgraphics?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His recent post Why User Competencies Matter in Social Design was a major breakthrough for me and circled me back to Jennifer Aaker's research. In designing for social participation, Adrian Chan urges us to consider user goals and needs — even interests, features, functionality, and adoption. So it’s naturally contagious.

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Tools and Tips

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Here are a few items brought to my attention recently. Social Bookmarking. Mashable recently posted this index of over 180 tools for use with del.icio.us , the popular social bookmarking site. Thanks to photograher and painter Serena Konig for bring this to my attention. Non-Profit Blogging. Email Tools.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools? Here's one way you might celebrate.

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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some first impressions: Slower, Reflective Experience: The process of answering and asking questions is a reflective practice. That does not typically happen when you participate in the fast, staccato pace of most social spaces like Twitter. Quora offered focused attention, not reactive.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. asks Rich Reeder.

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