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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

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Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

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This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Stand up 2 Cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation – Athletes for a Cure. Including media consumption and interactions per post, as well as the number of fans who have hidden you from their stream.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. Fundraising 2.0

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What is the distinction between social media for charity and social good/systemic change?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few examples of the latter that were mentioned on the Twitter stream. . There are social network applications designed to facilitate free agent fundraisers, for example Facebook Causes Birthday Campaign and some of the earlier experiments over at Social Actions. Information Age Volunteerism from The Extraordinaries.