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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills. Allan Benamer responded this week with some suggested guidelines for nonprofits to use for disclosure of security breaches Check this out!

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. So for those of you who guessed B, you are correct. And I want you to let that number really sink in because it is extraordinary.