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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Will people give online? Will people give through Facebook? you need to build to build relationships with people before you try and raise money from them. Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? Lots of uncertainty. Lots of buzzword bingo.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

35% are names of people that I didn't meet at gnomedex, people I know or read my blog - strangers. Right before I went on the state, I sent an IM to two really connected people who I had just helped with their campaigns - and asked them to retweet it. I don't think a company could -- but *people* at a company could.

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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. I wholeheartedly agree ! blog thought it was cool too.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. People are talking about you.