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Is Your Nonprofit Hitting the She Spot? Part 2

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According to Wikipedia , giving circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds and other resources to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awar eness and engagement in the process of giving. Connect with giving circles and encourage your members to start their own.

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Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Survives Griefing Attack

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Photo by Peacemaker. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay."

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My Fairy Godmother Status at Dreambank, Sending Coffee Karma Via Akoha, and My BillMeLater Pay It Forward Shopping Spree

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. So, the irony of when I won $500 shopping spree from Bill Me Later at the BlogHer Conference in Boston. But, what would I buy?

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

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The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. And how our connectedness is resulting in new collective behavior that can't be controlled.

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Connecting Metrics to Action.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I asked a BlogHer personal branding session whether it was important to narrowly focus your topic to build audience. My biggest source of traffic from search engines are people who search on the word "beth" -- Beth's Blog shows up number two, right above the wikipedia entry for beth.

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