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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

The image below, created by Meredith Farkas , is more balanced, providing a "cultural landscape" of fear, loathing, and obsession with Web 2.0. To many people, the culture of Web 2.0 we have to work first on establishing a culture that makes Web 2.0 we have to work first on establishing a culture that makes Web 2.0

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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

NTEN

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Once you find twenty target communities, rank them for size, activity, relevance to your issue, location, demographic, and cultural fit. Engage, Engage, Engage : Based on your listening, start to contribute in a way that is appropriate to the community’s culture.

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Your organization's social networking strategy doesn't have to be like mastercard - you don't have to be everywhere!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first question is answered by Rob's wonderful cartoon that makes the point that there are different cultures and different types of users across social networks. Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. How many social networks should we participate on?

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given that we're all volunteer organization and almost all our fundraising is grassroots - the approach was not a mismatch with our culture. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. What is the checklist?

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. David Wilcox gives a killer keynote at the UK Nonprofit Technology Conference Pathways to Success. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some more post conference write ups and live blog posts from smArts & Culture and Len Edgerly. " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon.

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