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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

NTEN

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Also, make sure to ask respected members of your local nonprofit community. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: .

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. We want all of the above on a map. Several maps! Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too! as a tool and organizational back-end for a local non-profit. What do we want? Forums and blogs too! And videos!

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. He gives a great list of what goes into the map.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. media: local and national. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Till I found myself crying `Wow this is much easier than before -. set audience. picked tools.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

Museum 2.0

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Many museums claim to be (or desire to be) accountable to their local communities. Half of the new features [in rollouts] now come from suggestions in IdeaExchange.

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