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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Look no further!

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Make Your Last Fundraising Push of the Year a Valuable One!

Tech Soup

Data shows that donations referred by email decreased by 21% due to. content to your social streams that leads to a mobile-optimized site. Don’t make givers bookmark your site. So you have a good chance. slow, clunky non-mobile donation pages at the other end of the link. This is the lynchpin, where everything else leads.

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Using Chris Brogan's Archimedes Principle To Leverage Nonprofits on Twitter Suggested User List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While waiting for my plane this morning before dawn, I scanned my Twitter stream thinking that a jolt of caffeine and Twitter would wake me up while I did my morning 20 minute information grazing routine, finding good stuff, retweeting, bookmarking and sharing. I came across this tweet from @socialcitizen. Skoll Foundation.

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You Know You Want Our Tchotchkes

Connection Cafe

Before we jump into the laundry list, Convio's Facebook page is your one-stop shop for upcoming Convio events - bookmark it for future reference! Causebuilding Games: Fundraising & Social Gaming Streams. Let's take a virtual tour of some upcoming conferences and I'll give you a preview of where you can see.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link.

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ???

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