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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Skeptics in the audience tweeted about the limitations of tool-centric campaigns or wondered if, at the end of day, there was any on the ground social change. Was it all hype? . the feature may also open up more broadly after tested. Folks like Brian Reich are skeptical.

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? When I read Jeremiah Owyang's post, two reflections came to mind: 1.