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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly. Ning allows nonprofits to launch their own social networking communities.

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Slides from Kellogg Action Lab: College of Consultants - Making Sense and Success with Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My slides and other resources are on the wiki. Thom was kind enough to do an interview with me about their ning use that I will publish in the next few days). It was a great opportunity to hear from consultants the questions, concerns, and challenges of their clients face related to social media in a strategic planning context.

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Women Who Tech Conference: Social Media Hot or Not? My Slides

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

| View | Upload your own. Later today, I am speaking on a panel at the WomenWhoTech Conference. Hot Or Not? 5:15 PM EST Twitter! Panelists share their opinions on the latest trends in Web 2.0 and how organizations can effectively use them to build community as well as as how to measure the real ROI???s. Panelists: Heather Holdridge, Care2.com,

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 " I've been thinking about remixing that slide so it matches the framework I set up for WeAreMedia tactical modules. In A Museum?

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0 There's also dogooder.tv Do you find Web2.0

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments! All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast.

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Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Some definitions they used in the study: " House Social Network " refers to a socialnetworking community built on a nonprofit's own web site. " Commercial Social Network " An online community platform owned and operated by a corporation such as Facebook.