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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

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Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. “The spam war is a continuous battle between spammers and security vendors,&# said Barracuda chief executive Dean Drako. » Why you need social media marketing. [.] … sucks.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. You'll build community and provide a useful information filtering service for your readers. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They just finished a YouTube video contest. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube For Nonprofits, continued

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While there are people who use YouTube as a pure social network, the majority of YouTube users are passive viewers of video. So connecting through the traditional social networking type of connections doesn’t have the impact on YouTube as it would on Facebook. In this way, no one would mistake their opt-in for spam.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos. One of our foremost social media strategies is to try to link to and promote as many stories as possible outside of our own site. but wouldn???t