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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. Flash forward four and a half years.

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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

So in this blog and elsewhere there's been a lot of hullabaloo about Facebook lately. 1) Google: Back last month, TechCrunch reported that google was getting ready for an announcement about an open developer's API that would compete with the attention that the Facebook Platform is getting from developers. The new developer platform.

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Congrats to Mazarine Treyz - The First Wiki Contributor to WeAreMedia Module 5

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s long-term and sustainable instead of another flash in the pan. Ask for a show of hands, who has heard of Myspace? Who has heard of Facebook? Urban League Facebook page ) We're so delighted that we decided to give away one more book! A lot of questions to be asked. The first thing to keep in mind? Otherwise you???

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. Everyone is a Curator.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ? Malvertising and toxic web search results will be on the rise. Newbie staffers may keep your day humming and your work queue crashing. the culprits. Am I buying/using the right software? You might consider moving to OpenID.

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Another Gold Star, FTW: A Look at Achievement Systems

NTEN

MySpace and Facebook display the number of friends you have. There are a few like the “Swarm” badge that requires 50 people to check in at the same location within a given period of time all flash mob-like. Online discussion boards have long had leveling systems to distinguish avid users.

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