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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.

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Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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