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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Resources and Reports Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog summarizes an article with tips on for how nonprofit marketing and public relations staff can gain entry into the blogosphere Michael Stein (East Coast) files a report from Mali about the GeekCorps Mali project. A Few Web2.0 Some commentary on methodology here.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. So, be mindful. " Who could argue with that? Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. Please keep in mind . Technology makes it increasingly easy to be removed from the field and practice “armchair development”.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits that are more active should keep in mind the data below. For example, @OneGreenPlanet recently tweeted a link to a call-to-action page to help Mali the elephant. Experimentation with tweet and retweet frequency by @NonprofitOrgs has confirmed this to be true. Tweet on the weekends.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In person, I’ve met Clay Shirky himself, Tim Maly , Robin Sloan , and at least 10 more — and I’ve edited dozens of folks that I know exclusively through the service. I’ve been watching some people’s minds work on the service for years. Every day I see their faces in my feed.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. of Internet visits. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers.

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