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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. And, yet another login and password.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. Personality Must Be Included , Forget The Boring Institutional Biolerplate. On Twitter, your organization should have a personality. I like the way NTEN does it.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. We did this graffiti interactive via Flickr. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page?

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. members ten at a time.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More Flickr Photos here. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. Personal experience, to connect to younger groups. It is a challenging and exciting at the same time.

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New to TechSoup: The TINT Social Media Display Platform

Tech Soup

You can also use RSS to pull in content from other sources like Flickr and WordPress. Personalize. TINT will automatically blacklist usernames and keywords to prevent spam from competitors or vandals. You can also use the Custom CSS option to build a custom theme and make TINT match your brand.

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33 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn has discontinued the ability to automate personal LinkedIn Updates with Twitter. LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. The ability to sync with Twitter has been discontinued.