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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Having a bad case of work avoidance yesterday - specifically building powerpoint slides and figuring out what to say, I got into an email conversation about Web2.0 " or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? and volcom sector adoption. is right for you and your org?

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Find out what kind of monkey you are for a good cause. And if Web 2.0

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How to Become a Facebook Rockstar

Forum One

Facebook isn't just all hype. Pages are designed for corporations — for-profit or otherwise — and offer more flexibility and features than Groups. By far, the most compelling content is anything that sparks conversation. Publicize events. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. Ask questions.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce?

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Everything I Needed to Know About the Web I Learned from Feminism When: Saturday, March 14th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room 9 Description: Feminism teaches "the personal is political" and the web shows that the personal is now public. Non-Profits: Be the Web You Wish to See! The Mobile Web for Good: Hype or Reality? Im @stanley00.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. You’re not going to over-hype a message to your mother or your very best friend. Direct mail just doesn’t yield what it used to.

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