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12NTC: Engaging Youth Using Social Media

Tech Soup

Representing the youth perspective was Shub Sengupta (at 18, surely one of the youngest NTC presenters of all time), a current college student and former Pathways to Education program participant. It's a burial ground for spam." Pathways to Education serves over 600 students. Pathways to Education's Story.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He selected some definitions from the Internet. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Internet is difficult to stop. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. They replaced the organization.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

I think the bad things will be that big business will try to push the little guy out of the way and some new legislation will to through in record time calling for changes in the child labor law.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. You have to have a really good computer and internet connection.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

I think the bad things will be that big business will try to push the little guy out of the way and some new legislation will to through in record time calling for changes in the child labor law.

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[VIDEO] 4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

Bloomerang

” So I started reverse engineering what was working for us and other nonprofits, really becoming a student, studying other nonprofits, like what’s working for these organizations that are finding success. I don’t mean spamming people. You’re not spam. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be spam.

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness.