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Testing the Typepad Facebook Automatic Posting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just testing this new feature in typepad that lets you automatically cross publish to Facebook profile. Higher up on profile real estate and one or two less steps than using the Facebook bookmarklet. Higher up on profile real estate and one or two less steps than using the Facebook bookmarklet. See larger image here.

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The Dangers of Online Services

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

These are two fairly small, fairly low-profile services (although SoapBlox is considered an extremely important part of the progressive blogosphere.) They hosted a small percentage of the blogs out there (in comparison to, say, TypePad or Blogger.) However, this is, of course, devastating to those who had their blogs there.

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Simon Berry's Facebook Query

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He has also tried to set up a Facebook page for his organization, but discovered there are some bugs with adding applications that are installed on his personal profile. I've switched over the typepad auto posting to Facebook which worked great, but now seems to have crapped out. It auto posts to my Facebook profile.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. at 1:15 pm Open Social !

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the blogging platform, so adding a widget is even easier than cut and paste! I went through the typepad collection and installed (unstalled) a lot of them because, to be honest, some did not hold promise for a nonprofit org blog. It's one click!

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I noticed today when I logged into Typepad that it is promoting the LinkedIn widget (ChipIn is the featured widget in the gallery , BTW). I joined LinkedIn in 2004, but I only recently actually completed my profile and given some attention to adding people to my network which now has what one friend say "a crap load of contacts.