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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. On a lighter note, take a few minutes to view this hillarious video, WikiKitchen , on how to turn your kitchen into a wiki. Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog."

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. The campaign. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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The Future of Learning in a Networked World: Reflections From My Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alan Levine shared his thoughts in the comments of another post on this issue: This year I was acutely aware of the spot you can put people in, like the reason you know Dave is contacting you in October is because he wants some $$ for the charity bike ride. For more resources on this topic, see my personal fundraising wiki.

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How the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Peter Panepento Uses Twitter Conversations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

on the wiki. Just reply to your @ or other) I've been actively searching Twitter for folks who are involved with philanthropy -- be they charities, professionals who work for charities and foundations, consultants, and those who simply care about social change. How do you find conversations on Twitter that you want to join?

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. from Sundance where she was busy running around asking celebs to join Six Degrees and getting them sign swag for charity. A Couple of Really Good Wikis.

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