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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? I am the only person who is paid to work on social media full-time. Book Tour?. ?Book

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon. I’m getting tired of wasting more time in front of my computer. I’m ready to save time so I can go out in the sun. Second, is bookmarking.

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8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. In my book, there are two things all blogs must have: a way to subscribe and comments.

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Guest Post: 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. In my book, there are two things all blogs must have: a way to subscribe and comments. Blogs can help you reach more people.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) It should be interesting to see how this plays out. Does it really connect me to people?

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. I like to think about this in terms of the amount of time per week ( How much time per week does it take to do social media? ) Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly".

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

The genesis of Click derived from James Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds. In the book, James asserts that "diversity and independence" are two of the most important factors that make crowds intelligent. million people have watched the prairie dog video does not make it a great video or an intelligent use of time.

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