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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Decentralization and Individual Empowerment: As power is pushed to the edges, individuals will have an increasing ability to exert influence through social and broadcast media. Don’t push networks to centralize and create format structures in order to manage when the network does not need this structure.

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steroids). I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. Each localized event is putting its own unique flair to the event.

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Guest Post by Jeff Gates: Confessions of a Long Tail Visionary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like many other organizations, our hierarchical structure has historically disseminated information from our experts to our visitors. We have to be cognizant of the new structures and relationships we’re building in order to evaluate our successes and failures. Museums are changing. Is it hubris to call us visionaries?

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