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Your organization's social networking strategy doesn't have to be like mastercard - you don't have to be everywhere!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, it isn't a black and white question in my mind. That is if you've built relationships and identified influencers). I've seen this first hand -- I don't engage deeply on MySpace - yet some of my donors for the Cambodian campaign who heard about on Facebook and shared it with their friends on MySpace.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Taproot Foundation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is that MySpace friend an activist? And it is the lingua franca for dealing with Generation Y and younger-minded supporters. They don't have to be social media butterflies, but they need to have influence and support in the organization. Don't fall into the silo syndrome trap. Learn from the mistakes of the past.

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Org Charts: Social Networking for the At-Work Set

Museum 2.0

I want great visualizations so I can see which committees influence which bills and which senators are big players across the board. MySpace, LiveJournal, and Facebook all provide ways for you to seamlessly view and click through friends and friends of friends. professional development Unusual Projects and Influences.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His tweets reveal him as a renaissance thinker, not just a narrow-minded tech geek. . If you're looking to engage and inspire new supporters, setting up an organizational presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is an option. I follow Tim O’Reilly ( O'Reilly Radar ) who coined the term Web 2.0.

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Does Immersion In Social Media Change Our Brain Functions? This Is Your Brain On Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been immersed in working online since 1990 and I've had a nagging question in the back of my mind, "How does being immersed in using Internet, Web, or more recently Social Media change the way our brains function, the way we think or our capacity to absorb information?" For example, Carol Torgan, Ph.D,

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. link] Cheers! -