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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. 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.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). 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

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. In my book, there are two things all blogs must have: a way to subscribe and comments.

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Guest Post: 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So, all browsers keep bookmarks – it helps one easily go back to and find sites that you go to regularly. These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it.

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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

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. I like to think about this in terms of the amount of time per week ( How much time per week does it take to do social media? ) Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly".

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

Museum 2.0

The genesis of Click derived from James Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds. In the book, James asserts that "diversity and independence" are two of the most important factors that make crowds intelligent. million people have watched the prairie dog video does not make it a great video or an intelligent use of time.

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