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Webinar: Winning the Story Wars

Care2

As the co-founder and creative director of Free Range, Jonah has helped hundreds of social brands and causes break through the media din with campaigns built on sound storytelling strategies. Justin developed one of the first social network ROI calculators to help nonprofits plan and evaluate their social media efforts.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Social Media: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

Care2

She is an expert in the latest trends in social networking, blogging, online video, and other online tools and strategies and advises her clients on how to cost-effectively incorporate them into their Internet plans and online campaigns. Care2 Webinars Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Is Your Museum Website a Walled Garden?

Museum 2.0

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. I have a constant personal quandary about the social network ExhibitFiles.

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