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Social Media Gurus Offer Their Predictions for 2009: A Few That Might Resonate With Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009. Implement listening programs through social media to get real time authentic knowledge that is actionable versus commissioning research. . It's that time of year again. Will nonprofits follow?

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Fundraising Meets Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? We Philanthropy? " Way back when I actually did fundraising, this was like 20 years ago folks, so my skills and knowledge are a wee bit out of date -- the mantra used to be "Fundraising is all who knows whom."

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations. Lucy Bernholz who writes the Philanthropy 2173 blog is a master of that - and is currently crowdsourcing trends and predictions for 2010. This is called working in a networked way.

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