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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email). Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s