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Google + Nonprofit Brand Pages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some say they’ll be testing, testing, and testing – throwing virtual pasta at the wall and see what sticks and how much time and effort it takes to throw that pasta. I didn’t hear a lot of chatter about what objectives and measurement – particularly how to measure to learn.

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. Just do it.

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. Just do it.

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Facebook Changes for Organization Pages: Focus On Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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Apps for Going Green

Tech Soup

Be Nice to Bunnies (iPhone) can help you make informed decisions about purchasing cruelty-free (not tested on animals) products. iPhone) app demystifies green product labels and claims so you can identify which are truly environmentally friendly — and which are just marketing hype. Games for Change.

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10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan

Connection Cafe

Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Measure – look at social activity data to learn who you are influencing, what is causing activity, what content is effective and what you can optimize.

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Step Up to AI, But Tread Lightly

.orgSource

Should we believe the hype? In March, he along with dozens of others in the AI space, signed an open letter “calling for a pause on any developments more advanced than the current version of ChatGPT so that robust safety measures could be designed and implemented.” (BBC It is still in beta testing. But technology moves fast.

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