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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

NTEN

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). They tend to have tens of thousands of members versus the hundreds of millions for mainstream sites. Once you find twenty target communities, rank them for size, activity, relevance to your issue, location, demographic, and cultural fit.

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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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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. My rule now is that I set up a presence on different sites and have email forwarded if people want to contact me, but I go deep in only a couple of places.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Do you find Web2.0

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! Given that we're all volunteer organization and almost all our fundraising is grassroots - the approach was not a mismatch with our culture. Is that built into the system? What's the protocol?

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