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Blogs As Barrier to Conversation and Nonprofit Barriers to Blogging and Tagging.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. There are others, including e-mail lists, web-based discussion forums, chat rooms, call-in talk shows, and even (to a certain extent) podcasts and wikis. His take: "We shouldn???t

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers.

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A Look at Nonprofits and Vlogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " A nonprofit just beginning to incorporate video into their web presence notes on a recent Netsquared post , "We don't have that much capacity to do video work, so its kind of catch-as-catch-can."

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Jayne Cravens to Serve as Advisor to UN program in Afghanistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. This can only happen, of course, with making available a small amount of time to experiment, figuring out how the experiment will help the organization reach particular outcomes, and keeping it very simple.

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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

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the Netsquared community in the form of feedback on the idea, experts in understanding the footprint life cycle consumables, game designers to help design compelling social incentives, 3. PS: Financers will of course be rewarded a stake in the eventually funded entity. What help could you use at this stage?

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. You can read a transcript of the podcast below. Paul Rice: TransFair is the only organization here in the United States that certifies Fair Trade products.