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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action. This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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The more things change …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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Things We Like (March 2009)

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IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. (Oh, and if you want to drive yourself insane, try this hi-def version.). The appropriation of big ideas for good. But where's the TARP of nonprofit funding? Social actions wants you to tap their API.

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Everything

Judi Sohn

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! One has Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism so that's a cause very important to me, particularly around advocating for the education of a special needs child where I have considerable battle scars. once which was a trip.

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Everything

Judi Sohn

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! One has Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism so that's a cause very important to me, particularly around advocating for the education of a special needs child where I have considerable battle scars.

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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

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Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). They may even be well-educated about your issue so you don’t have to start explaining from the ground up. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.