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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Interaction (are people sharing our content? Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book Book Tour?. ?Book

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon.

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8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Guest Post: 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. Check out his free e-book the New Rules of Viral Marketing ). #5

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway? Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. The genesis of Click derived from James Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds.

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