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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Write social media and mobile technology policies. Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Set up Flickr Profile. Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Purchase a digital camera.

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Blogging to Support Policy Goals: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. To build capacity for social media in policy partners.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Photo: USFWS/ Flickr ] We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. Photo: Chris Light , CC BY-SA] Supporting policies that benefit conservation can also help. Geological Surveys Powell Center Status of Butterflies of the United States Working Group , which I am involved in.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. It’s also allowed them to find a new audience that are not as familiar with their policy issues.

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In Defense of Community Managers

Amy Sample Ward

Posted engagement policies or intuitive design will do nothing for participation on a new platform without active members modeling the way the tools can be used. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). As such, Community Managers play to a core element for any shared space: modeling behavior. What do you think?

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Tim Wu, the ‘father of net neutrality,’ is joining the Biden administration

The Verge

Photo: New America / Flickr. Tim Wu — the Columbia law professor who coined the term “net neutrality” — is joining the Biden administration , where he’ll be working on technology and competition policy at the National Economic Council.

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