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Which Social Network Use Base Is More Altruistic?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users? I don't think that you can really compare the entire user base of one social network with another.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. He raised $28 million online, of which, “90% [of the contributions] were under $100, with over 250,000 contributors.” She loves interacting with communities online.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. The campaign. The campaign.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. Philthanthropy. Do you find Web2.0 New (to me) Blogs.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Meetup Recap: Jen Burton from Causes on Fundraising and Online Communities

Tech Soup

Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. on Facebook and search for organizations, causes, and charities related to specific terms. I was most recently at Digg. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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