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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream.

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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

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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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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own." " I agree. All the candidates.

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How to: 5 Steps for hosting a successful online event

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The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Plan ahead and try out new techniques for online engagement, but don't be afraid to switch direction mid-stream. Use media to your advantage.

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Tori Tuncan, Guest Post -- The Lend4Health Journey: Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was amazing to me that I could get all this great, intelligent information and that, because I could choose to follow specific people, the stream was already "filtered" and oftentimes already "digested" for my specific needs and consumption. Tags: cloud facebook guest blogging social media twitter.