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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

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You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. "Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? I wonder how that relates to rates of alcohol abuse?"

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Building Community with Open Source

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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! First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amazon and Netflix are able to offer us recommendations based on our (implicit) browsing, (implicit) buying and (explicit) rating behavior and comparing it to the behavior of other people like us. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 and asking for ideas.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Also announced 2.0

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

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What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. This session will use a training game as a conversation starter for participants to begin to identify the most important metric mapped with strategy. Think Nielsen Ratings ). He gives a great list of what goes into the map. What happens?

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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. looked at incoming links and rate of growth. 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 -. Yes we did.

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