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A Social Media Reality Check

Care2

If you work in Communications, escaping the latest hype around social media can be tough. Population Does Not Spend Their Day Using Social Media. YouTube: 19.94% of the U.S population is on YouTube. Social Media: Just One Slice of the Pie. More Resources: Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst.

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

Care2

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Is that responsible social change? The issue is complex.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The experts say that if you are over 24, you will not get it — and so I was relieved that it was SnapChat, not me and that my technical skills had suddenly disappeared like a snap. Thank god there are teenage YouTube celebrities who share excellent SnapChat tutorials like Aaron’s Break the Internet.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. I have been working social media sites daily for 4.5

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. What also becomes clear very quickly is that organizations that have embraced the use of social media get a lot more leverage on Jumo. Is Jumo Worth The Hype? Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Event Fundraising Contests That Will Blow Your Mind!!

NetWits

Use social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. There are a few different reasons we offer contests: to recruit riders to join the ride and promote the event, to raise more funds, and to promote our social networking sites with re-tweets and fan ‘likes’. They: Register early. Belong to a team.

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Wielding Web 2.0 Intelligently: the SFMOMA Experiment

Museum 2.0

That’s a negative if the goal is to get out into the blogging or social network community. Others are uploading videos of their public programs to YouTube. And then, once you’re ready, you’ll be able to cut through the hype and the techno babble to create something that truly works for you and your visitors. Projects.

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