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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools. Flash forward four and a half years. Executives have come a long way in understanding the Social Web.

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Can Small Nonprofits Reap Success With Social Media? (Giving away a copy of Twitter for Dummies)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After last week's social media workshop , a gentleman from a local nonprofit came up to me and said, "Well this social media stuff is all fine and good for large national advocacy organizations, but it is not very relevant for small or regional organizations with really tight resources.".

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Welcome to the post-pandemic economy, startups

TechCrunch

Software, video and audio streaming, trading services, e-commerce, consumer fintech, gaming and, in some cases, social networking. So let’s talk accelerated and decelerated startup sectors in light of what we’ve learned from Big Tech’s flashing warning and jackpot lights.

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Book: We First: How Brands & Consumers Use Social Media To Build A Better World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It refers to a corporation’s responsibility to shoulder the impact they have on the economy. He describes the use of a “flash mob&# going to a shareholder’s meeting and demanding a claw-back for ill-gotten bonuses. Fiscal Responsibility: In the book, this term is not used an accounting term.

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Twitter Under The Microscope: The Trusted Circle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What stood out for me was that while social networks like Twitter can connect us to lots of people, we can only really develop deeper relationships with a small subset. Finding the true network that an individual has (even if they have thousands of "friends") is what's really important. Something more to chew on.

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Fewer than 150 Early Bird Tickets Left for the 2012 NTC

NTEN

You can now check out the full list of breakout sessions , organized by time and track, on our conference social networking platform, myNTC. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Managing a Flash Crisis: How to Handle Online Criticism of Your Organization.

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Register for the Nonprofit Technology Conference by February 17th

NTEN

You can now check out the full list of breakout sessions , organized by time and track, on our conference social networking platform, myNTC. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Managing a Flash Crisis: How to Handle Online Criticism of Your Organization.