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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last fall, we marched all 350 or so Environmental Defense Fund staff through two days of a social media challenge. We all voted, and the winning team got budget money to fund their social media plan.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. " The year was 2005. The Iraq War was raging.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His definition: projects that are not well funded. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble. One suggestion is vikono.org, Swahili plural for insect antennae.

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