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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Title: Digital Marketing Manager. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. I join as many social media sites as I can and try to spend time learning each community so I can offer advice to others on how to engage with them.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon. It lets you bookmark to multiple sites with one click. It’s a great idea, I think.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. Source: Mary Joyce, Digital Activism Workshop - E-Mediat Project. This means choices will be made.

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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. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So, all browsers keep bookmarks – it helps one easily go back to and find sites that you go to regularly. These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) Its great for lunch hours!

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Do you want to track how many people are signing your petitions after visiting your site? KnewEm ( [link] - a quick place to see if your brand name is registered on hundreds of social media sites. Its one-stop-shopping for posting to multiple video sites simultaneously, plus it tracks all the stats, too. pretty cool.