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YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have been for a long time and some nonprofits, like Momsrising, have been using them as part of their engagement strategy. The nonprofit blog carniva l has been going for a few years, created by Kivi Leroux Miller, of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide, in 2006, and Joanne Fritz at About.com took over management of the carnival in 201o.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits.

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Pimp My Nonprofit Panel at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & You can find a copy of my slides, notes, and resources on this wikitation ) A few bloggers blogged great notes and some other commentary below -- thanks so much.

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. What's the nonprofit chatter that is happening right now on Twitter? Despite a DOS attack this week on SlideShare, a couple of nonprofit techies managed to upload slide shows.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.