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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. Yet recently, I sense some frustration with Facebook from nonprofits. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. Nonprofits throughout the world have sent millions upon millions of e-mails, Tweets, bulletins, updates, etc.

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

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This week we wanted to share some of the most thought-provoking and insightful blog posts from the nonprofit community. KONY, Networked Nonprofits, and Transparency by Beth Kanter. Africans are talking about the campaign – and you can see a roundup of posts from African bloggers responding to the hype.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

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Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. And what does this trend mean for nonprofits? In December traffic dipped about 21% to 68M unique visits. These numbers are still quite respectable. What about Facebook?

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Rumors of Blogs' Demise and Revolution Are Exaggerated!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. I entered "blog hype" as a search term and came across a recent article on WSJ online. " So, this is the backlash hype. February, 2006.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real.

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Nonprofits/Web2.0, Role of Technology Steward, and Connections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You may have heard the words, but what do they really mean for nonprofit organizations? tools are the right fit for their organizational goals and if so some first steps to have a conversation and not get seduced by the hype. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. for nonprofits.

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