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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

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Twive and Receive Reveals the Top 20 Most Generous Cities & Who Would Win In A Fight Between the Hulk and a Kitten | Razoo Media Room – "Julie Nations, the Executive Director of The Ellie Fund said “It’s been the best communications outreach program we’ve ever done.

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My article in the December NTEN Newsletter is Live!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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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

For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

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Angus Parker, Program Director, WiserEarth. Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Angus is the Program Director of WiserEarth. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Is your organization using niche networks as part of its social media strategy? What is a niche social network? .

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

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Anne is the online media coordinator for Green Hour® , an NWF program geared toward getting children outside in nature. The first thing we did was figure out what she wanted to see happen on www.greenhour.org , the program's microsite. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.).

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube.

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