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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. He talks about the importance of Google implementing brand pages.

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J. Leroy says "OMG Blogging is so not Web 2.0"

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for world to embrace integration it is necessary to focus on our goals and not on the technology. Now we must grow responsibly.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. Precision targeting with intelligent integrated outreach across diverse media yields results. t follow up or integrate with other initiatives. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. As Geoff points out: What???s

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Convio or Causes? I wholeheartedly agree ! And if you???re

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The Struggles and Strategies of Online Organizing: An Interview with Leda Dederich

Have Fun - Do Good

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." Below is a transcript of the interview. To start, I asked Leda what inspired her to start dotOrganize.