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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. Wait for maturation? Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists?

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. If your nonprofit is based in the DC area, NpowerDC reminds us that the deadline for their annual Technology Innovation Award is two weeks away. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. Uber has excess capacity (cars, drivers, and technology); people have excess clothes.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. Tactical Philanthropy continues the One Post Challenge with a post titled " Beyond Hacking Philanthropy " from Kevin Jones from Good Capital and who blogs xchangexchange. And if you???re

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy.

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