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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). People who benefit from spreading your idea, not people who need to own it." The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. Wait for maturation?

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example, the netsquared conference. This is particularly useful if there is a great volume material that has been tagged and could benefit from a more organized presentation than a "messy" tag stream. If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Social bookmarking in plain English! " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits. Need some comic relief? Maybe just some prayers?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks. Explore and discover other bookmarks using this guide.

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Jayne Cravens to Serve as Advisor to UN program in Afghanistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. " She is hoping to make connections with organizations and individuals who are running programs based in Afghanistan.