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The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management

AFP Blog

era has a whole other language – like Digg, Blogger, Facebook and Twitter. The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Do You Speak Geek? Do Your Donors?It It seems like the Web 2.0 But these technologies are shaped by a fundraising cornerstone – personal relationships.

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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". will essentially be a set of APIs and a new markup language that will allow third party developers to create applications that run within MySpace. The new developer platform.

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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

In the book People to People Fundraising , I talked about the "Changing Nature of Community" and how "never before have people been able to transcend the physical boundaries of location, language, or other limitations to connect with one another in such powerful ways." Communities matter. Social networking matters.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. 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. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Show example of Idealist tracking the different language versions and geographic distribution. I also keep fairly good track of the languages of visitors of our site. We have an extensive volunteer language program trying to translate the site into as many languages as possible.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

literally speak a different language from the rest of us. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?" Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. technologies.

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