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The Perils of Fake News, Coordinated Misinformation, and Social Media Addiction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It makes me miss the optimism from a decade ago about the rise of social media and social network platforms. These insiders are the same engineers who designed and built different features in social media platforms that created our behavior addictions. Makes you wonder what they know that the average user does not?

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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How Nonprofit New Media Managers Can Manage Mobile and Social Media Burnout

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mobile and social media stimulates mental chatter and can sometimes even affect a person’s ability to sleep. All day, almost every day, nonprofit new media managers are immersed in breaking news and thus the world’s problems. The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode.

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Kiss Vanity Metrics Goodbye

Care2

I would much rather see organizations have 5,000 people who were committed to their campaign then 500K people who weren’t really engaged on the social justice issues your organization was advocating. The other problem with relying on vanity metrics is that it dilutes social media’s real purpose – to be social.

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E-Mediat: A Simple Design Process for an Online Learning Community Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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Twitter Tip for Networked Nonprofits: Follow the Few To Get To the Many

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We don’t have the time or brain cells for that. It’s about finding people who are connected to different social circles and following them. Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. This works best if you have small network.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

ASU Lodestar Center

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. Mostly, board members are recruited from within the board’s social network … (and) social networks are largely racially homogeneous. “In

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