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Table of Contents :: Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Chapter 1 Websites, E-newsletters, and “Donate Now” Campaigns. Chapter 2 Getting Started with Social Media. Chapter 3 Facebook and Facebook Apps. Five Status Update Content Ideas for Nonprofits. Chapter 4 Twitter and Twitter Apps. Chapter 5 YouTube and Flickr. and Web 3.0.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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Books That Changed Us in 2020

Media Cause

– Sarah Ackerman, Director of Copy + Content . A photography/narrative story where the author visits forgotten cities of America and meets the people who decided to stay even when the factories shut down and the money left. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It doesn’t hurt that Obama is a damn fine writer.

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Moving from Story to Narrative

Tech Soup

Narratives can tie together seemingly disparate stories, the way a novel ties together the chapters of a book. Narratives lend themselves to transmedia storytelling, so use different tools like video and photography. The open-ended nature of narratives invites others to participate in order to help create the ending together.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 1: Overview and Statistics

Museum 2.0

Participants were engaged in the following ways: Content review (open). Content review (solicited). In addition to the volunteers who signed up to help on the wiki, I directly solicited sixteen professionals in the field who I respect to provide feedback on particular chapters (or in some cases, on the entire draft).