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Which Social Network Use Base Is More Altruistic?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users? I don't think that you can really compare the entire user base of one social network with another.

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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network.

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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

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. 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.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet. Tom Dawkins, Co-Founder of StartSomeGood.com Fundraising Focus: Crowdfunding for local and global causes. In a recent talk on Why Mobile Matters , Miles points out, our phones are usually within an arms reach of us and become an “intimate and personal device.”

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The Conversation Graph: The Social Life of A Blog Post

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of us are familiar with the term " Social Graph " defined as the global mapping of everybody and how they're related. But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Ending Global Slavery is part of an Ashoka initiative Changemakers.net.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. 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.

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