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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

My Google+ profile automatically includes a Google Buzz tab to see the stream from that space. In the early days of Twitter, the public stream contributed dramatically to users finding each other and people of interest to follow or just to communicate with. Note: I am connected directly with Debra, but not with Andy).

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5 Myths That Are Sabotaging Your Major Gift Strategy

Saleforce Nonprofit

Tools like iWave streamline our prospect research by automatically aggregating and analyzing publicly available data to create rich (pun intended) donor profiles for our major gift officers. The tool feeds donor data from Salesforce into a patented machine-learning algorithm to personalize ask amounts for each prospect.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Filter: Most of the time you spend “spotting the awesome” will be vetting and filtering out most of the incoming content stream.

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What If Your Fitbit Could Also Track Your Environmental Footprint?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a systems level, the aggregated data can help public health researchers gain more insights about healthy behaviors. But what if the steps and calories we were tracking were also linked to environmental impact data – and it helped us motivate us to change our habits – so we were not only more healthy, but the planet too.

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Using Twitter for a Global Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

Using hashtags lets you mark your message as pertaining to a certain topic, then automatically include that message in a stream with everyone else’s that include the same hashtag. Plus, it will provide a natural and obviously place to aggregate your content, thoughts, updates, and promotion of the chats. What do those # mean?

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Nonprofits That Tweet: Roundup of lists, resources, and examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofitorgs on Twitter is an aggregator of nonprofits on Twitter and is following over 2,000 nonprofits. These are twitterfeeds of aggregating calls to action by particular issues area. You'll find lots of value in these twitter streams, pointers to useful resources. Where To Connect With Other Nonprofits.

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Follow the 2009 NTC Live!

NTEN

Of course, we're going to aggregate photos, videos, blog posts, and various other content tagged "09NTC" But that's just the beginning. This year, we'll also have: Live video feeds from selected sessions. You can join in the fun by watching the stream and sharing your thoughts and commentary with the bloggers. .

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