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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The opening chapters include many stories about networks and collective action and pull out key themes and strategies. In addition to the stories, you’ll find additional resources related to each theme. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory.

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Does Immersion In Social Media Change Our Brain Functions? This Is Your Brain On Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This chapter and the subsequent advice in the book about going on data/information fasts always left me with a lingering question. There's a whole chapter on the Net Generation Brain. Can immersion in online information consumption -- interacting on the web - change our brains and ability to absorb information?

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Association of Fundraising Professionals, DC Chapter / Baltimore, MD / Price varies. AFP, Colorado Chapter / Breckenridge, CO / Price TBA.

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