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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them. By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent.

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Guest Post by Ali Cherry: Seven Thoughts on Slacktivism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. It is quite possible that we will become frantically busy doing a lot of change stuff that does make the doers feel great (which is important ) but doesn’t add up to the systemic social change needed in communities. both offline and online.

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Jayne Cravens to Serve as Advisor to UN program in Afghanistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. " Findhabeas.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Does it say what you really want it to about your organization?

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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