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		<title>Beth Asked a Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth asked a question on her blog the other day:
Do we have examples of using nonprofits using social media for:

Volunteer or board recruitment strategy
Ooutreach or educational program delivery
Crowdsourcing ideas for program development
Professional development
Integrated in other areas

The answer is that there are a growing number of examples of organizations, and individuals, using social media as part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=930&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Giving Challenge Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s Giving Challenge concluded last week. The event, the second such challenge, was sponsored by The Case Foundation ($150,000), The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy &#38; Social Innovation ($20,000) and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation ($75,000). Nonprofit organizations competed to raise the largest number of friends online using the Causes application on Facebook and on Parade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=927&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Inconvenient Truth of Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a tweet today that was terrific. It was from Trevor Neilson of the Global Philanthropy Group and it read, &#8220;The inconvenient truth of social media and philanthropy is that awareness does not equal impact.&#8221;
It&#8217;s true, awareness  is not the same as impact, but it never has been  on land either. The question that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=924&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofits and Transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Bernholz, in her usual smart and insightful way, has written a terrific post on philanthropy and transparency, Downsides of Transparency. She is riffing on an article that Larry Lessig wrote for the New Republic entitled, Against Transparency.
Lessig&#8217;s arguments are more provocative than right. There is, of course, nothing inherently bad with opening up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=920&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iParticipate and Social Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch, sent me a link to his provocate blog post, Turning Good Intentions into Action: Hollywood vs. Google.  Greg says that the Entertainment Industry Foundation&#8217;s much-ballyhooed iParticipate campaign to boost volunteerism was a bust.
The idea of the campaign was for a significant number of TV shows to incorporate volunteerism into their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=916&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Give List Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday season is here and with Thanksgiving and the December holidays comes our second annual Give List!
Givelist is an idea that I had the pleasure of hatching with Marnie Webb last year. It&#8217;s a very simple idea. We wanted people to help us to list ways that individuals can do to give back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=913&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks as Communities not Competitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by this article on the Financial Times website called, &#8220;MySpace Abandons Race with Facebook.&#8221; The gist isn&#8217;t surprising, MySpace is falling behind Facebook in the total slice of the social networking pie and is therefore changing its focus from competing with Facebook to being a hub for music and entertainment.
MySpace has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=909&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our &#8220;Aha&#8221; Moments</title>
		<link>http://afine2.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/our-aha-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Rasiej]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baruch College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deanna Zandt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a terrific time as part of a panel yesterday at Baruch College called Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need to Know. The event was co-sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum. The other panelists were:

Andrew Rasiej, Founder of Personal Democracy Forum
 Deanna Zandt, Media Technologist, Consultant, and Author of the forthcoming book: Share [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=905&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Social Capital Increasing Online?</title>
		<link>http://afine2.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/is-social-capital-increasing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[america's giving challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope for Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jocelyn Harmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Komen Race for the Cure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leisa Reichelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Putnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jocelyn Harmon has written a terrific post called Are We Still Bowling Alone? Jocelyn rightly ponders the possibility that the use of social media tools, particularly social networking sites, is reversing the trends of decreasing social capital that Robert Putnam famously wrote about at the end of the twentieth century in Bowling Alone.
Populations the size [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=900&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Mashup at IssueLab</title>
		<link>http://afine2.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/fun-mashup-at-issuelab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issuelab announced a fun mashup contest called Research Remix that starts next week.[Note: full disclosure, I'm a judge for the contest.]
Here is the nub of the contest from the website: &#8220;Contestants will be asked to remix facts from one or more of the 300+ Creative Commons licensed reports on IssueLab with openly licensed video footage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&blog=216337&post=896&subd=afine2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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