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Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. Others will simply focus on the networks that have the most impact on their community.

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Great reads from December 12th through December 13th

Amy Sample Ward

PR Squared: Twitter is a Wonderland - Great overview of the power of networked communities to do great things. Check out how Tyson agreed to donate 70,000 lbs of food!

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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

NTEN

You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. While I have accounts with StumbleUpon and Reddit, I rarely use them. Tags: NPTech stumbleupon idealistnews.org idealist.org reddit web2.0

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Just because it may not work for me doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for another person building a community.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. But the community blogs do provide a way for a wider audience to read the content that I have created. I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon.

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Social Network Tracker: How to Find your Supporters on Social Networks

Care2

You can use this data to identify the "super-connectors" on your list so that you can reach out to these individuals and: Find out if they are talking about your issue in their social networking community. StumbleUpon. Engage them in discussions and generate feedback. Cross promote your actions, volunteer, and donation opportunities.

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WeAreMedia ToolBox: This Week We're Working Crowdsourcing, Micro Media, and Lifestreaming Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.   Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?