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12NTC: Engaging Youth Using Social Media

Tech Soup

Representing the youth perspective was Shub Sengupta (at 18, surely one of the youngest NTC presenters of all time), a current college student and former Pathways to Education program participant. According to Shim, Facebook is a primary communication tool for young people. It's a burial ground for spam."

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He selected some definitions from the Internet. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Internet is difficult to stop. The volunteers were high school students. Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

They even created a Facebook application. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. We deferred since it violates Diggs terms of service, but our opponents might not be so ethical.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. We deferred since it violates Diggs terms of service, but our opponents might not be so ethical.

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[VIDEO] 4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

Bloomerang

” So I started reverse engineering what was working for us and other nonprofits, really becoming a student, studying other nonprofits, like what’s working for these organizations that are finding success. I don’t mean spamming people. You’re not spam. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be spam.

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness.