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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

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Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Visual content motivates more responses than text, engages younger participants, and is often cited as a major trend of 2012 and 2013. A trend in which I take almost no part.

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Purpose Prize Awards $100K to Social Justice Innovators Over 60

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The Purpose Prize is a project of Civic Ventures , which has an impressive history of awarding lifetime achievement awards to people like Joe James , who is bringing the economic power of green technology to farmers in the rural south, and Barbara Cervone , who is empowering youth to tell their stories through the web. Awards Trends.

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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

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If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? more about it here.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learn Trends Digital Habitats View more presentations from Nancy White. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.). Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Heather Carpenter from AspirationTech points us to two nonprofit studies -- one about employment trends in the sector and the other nonprofit effectiveness. tools in their web sites.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Hiring people.

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