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Google+ and Nonprofits: No Worries If You Have Not Yet Been Invited!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The beta is limited to the personal side of social networking. So again, that Google is being upfront about deleting such profiles (and avoiding a spam free-for-all in the process) is smart and a clear indicator that your nonprofit is not yet missing the early adoption phase.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. At the time, it was a completely new concept whereas today our daily internet experience is one based on social commentary and feedback. The conversation has shifted from blog comments to social media.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Follow More on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There is absolutely a math to Twitter, and social networking in general, and the lower your number(s), the lower your potential for synergy. Rather, of the 10 follow those that look to be genuine follows and not spam or those new to Twitter with no logo or bio… let’s say that’s four of the 10.

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Burning Problems With Social Networks: What do you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1) Understand how privacy controls work on social networks.

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How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning

The Next Web

Around three years ago, when the “easy” ways of manipulating Google presence, such as building irrelevant links to your site within forum signatures and Web directories, have started triggering hundreds of thousands of penalties per year, online marketers and bloggers started to seek for a change of strategy. Fast forward to 2014.

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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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Creepy or Community Building?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. Deborah Finn has been playing with widgets and decided to install the MyBlogLog widget today. She writes about her experience here. (I