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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions. Xobni is a third-party Microsoft Outlook plug-in that, in addition to helping you search and sort your email, aggregates the social media activity of your contacts into a quick-click interface.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Google Social Edge Search searches 35 sites, including : omidyar.net, compumentor.org, techsoup.org, bblocks.org, idealist.org, rpcv.org, etc. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” Twubs :: twubs.com.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We set up tracking with hashtags and keyword searches. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. Have a clear call to action.

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