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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. What's your take on the future of nonprofits and how social networks are causing disruptive and far ranging change?

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. " Web 2.0, " Web 2.0,

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

social marketing,??? which has been used since the early 1970s to refer to a specific marketing discipline, is being hijacked to mean something else entirely with the rise of things like social network marketing. Successful social marketers tap into people???s ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ???

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

I don’t know if we’d have welcomed a male passenger we only knew through social networking. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. Also, we were two women undertaking a long journey through some pretty uninhabited area.

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