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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

However, in the world of nonprofits, where an organization cannot afford to have boots on the ground full time in all of the cities they have supporters, it is up to the event planner to figure out new solutions to the problem of “you can’t be in two places at once&#." " Lights.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Place an AddThis or ShareThis button on the top of the blog. Have a "blogroll," a list of blogs that write about your issue. Post weekly roundups of blog posts about your issue. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. A place that truly sees these initiatives as part of their mission to serve their local community. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum.

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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

So the issue is more how to best match your strategy, outcomes, and audience with the right tool and what type of simple experiment can you set up and what will you learn? Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. Through this blog we??ve

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Conservancy, as a science-based organization, places a lot of value in numbers and data-driven arguments. This is one of the most breathtaking places I have ever seen. Our Flickr photo contest. This helps us be good community members and avoid issues of spamming. s annual digital photo contest.