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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jessica Kirkwood , VP for Social Media,HandsOn Network agreed to write this about their latest social media experiment and what they were learning. Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network by Jessica Kirkwood.

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Meet Danielle Brigida: Ranger Rick's AlterEgo on Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. Now that many nonprofits are using social networking actively during the holiday, I recently caught up with Danielle to learn about whether Ranger Rick is back on Facebook and what she has since learned that might be useful to nonprofits thinking about working on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

social networking sites. I know the move by most orgs recently has been to transition over to Facebook (something Oxfam has slowly been doing), but this is very annoying. Eric Eckle suggests that this points to some larger organizational issues in embracing social networking sites.

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The social media cheesecloth: Filter and find what works for you

Connection Cafe

In this ever-changing and progressing world of social media it can be overwhelming to “keep up with the Joneses”, so to speak. I’d accepted the friend request and then started getting spammed. ” This got me thinking about how non-profits can use social networking.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. At my organization, we use Zimbra.com's Collaboration Suite Network Edition , which has a good configuration of SpamAssassin. They may be infected. Well, it's back.

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10 Random, But Useful Online Communications Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

org , bsr17.org org , and bsr18.org. More than that and your nonprofit has entered the realm of hashtag spamming which is rewarded with less engagement and lower click-through rates. For example, bsr16.org 1) Buy short domains that work well in print and online. 3) Consider using the new.ngo domain.