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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) as a form of self expression and identification.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) as a form of self expression and identification.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

It is an advocacy group that will be “a strong voice in determining how mobile develops to best meet the needs of mission awareness, donor acquisition, engagement, and payments.” ” It turns out that Facebook news feeds are moving away from being a social network to allow a stream of business advertisers to have precedence.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society." The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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5 Questions for Geoff Livingston | Nonprofit Trends with Steve.

sgEngage

It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. I throw out voices that get repetitive or too self focused. The big nonprofits have come to play.

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