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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I was also surprised to read this post by the Web Metrics Guru, not the usual type of blog that covers the nonprofit world or philanthropy.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them!

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Notes, Reflections, and People I Met at Podcamp Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I gave the Social Media Metrics session. It was also great to see John Wall a second time this month! Jonny did a session on live streaming talk shows by doing a talk show. Not a bad idea to put a link in your twitter stream. I love taking a cross disciplinary perspective - education, nonprofit, and corporate.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With What do you think? Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. And you wil find a lot of local scenery in the flickr stream as people enjoyed the streets of Monterey. Live Video Streams. metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. Flickr the Conference.