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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While this Peer Exchange starts off with best practices on Facebook, it is a means to a higher end: how to apply and integrate those principles into the organization’s broader children’s health communications strategies. He talks about the importance of Google implementing brand pages. What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofits need to look at objectives and resources, target their audiences, and think about multi-channel efforts before jumping on the Let's Use Facebook bandwagon. (I " Geoff Livingston makes a good point about why some efforts using Facebook have not raised huge dollar amounts. Not buying into social media/Facebook hype.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Dave Winer describes in detail why Why Facebook Sucks.

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