Janet Fouts, author of Social Media Success!
A few of my favorites:
“Focus on sharing your cause. The money will follow.”
and
“Create a relationship first, and then ask for support.”
This is a great book for traveling, or if you’d like to see bite-size examples of successes in non-profit social media. Either way, I’m recommending this one, especially if you’re involved with a non-profit.
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Review of #SOCIAL MEDIA NONPROFIT Tweet
In this ‘off the record’, or ‘unattributed’, or whatever you want to call it, Tweet, Nick Bilton gets the nitty-gritty on how Zuckerberg feels about user privacy. Now, to be fair, I’m sure he’s not totally against some user privacy, but it’s the internet people! Other than your date-of-birth, emails, social security number, and your address/phone number, nothing you put on the internet really needs to be private.
Less private content means better archival options (I can link directly to what you said), transparency among identities, and less trollery. Remember, anonymous comments are the bane of the internet, and in no way contribute to a discussion. Making real people, with real identities, a possibility means we can really cut down on asshats and spam, and that’s what all this Identity 2.0 stuff is trying to do.
My two cents… Don’t expect anything on the net to be private. If you want to keep your opinions to yourself, don’t post them to Twitter or Facebook. If you feel the need to only share them with a handful of people, just group text them or email them. Otherwise, I see no problem w/Facebook, or any company, pushing the limits of so-called privacy on the net a bit. Remember, Blippy couldn’t even keep your Credit Cards safe (Techmeme), so you should assume that if your content is out there, it may one day see the light.
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We give out way too much information online. You know it, I know it, but it’s fun and we so push the fear out of our minds and continue to chat about our kids, our friends, how annoying so-and-so is at work on Facebook, Twitter and more. But we’ve been conditioned to share, and it’s not a recent evolution.
Supermarket ‘clubs’, like those in place at CVS, Safeway, Publix, and virtually every chain supermarket, save Walmart, already share your data with telemarketers and email marketers. The swipe saves us a few bucks so we agree… Upromise, by Sallie Mae, has already gotten into big trouble with not disclosing the truckloads of data they collect from their toolbar to their users. Still college students add that toolbar and hope for the best. WE SHARE TOO MUCH!
A Mashable post on Data Mining in Social Media digs a little deeper, but still not deep enough. They don’t even mention the new iPhone app that’s being called a ’stalker’s dream’ nor the freaky 123People that lets you check the government documents that other people have filed (or had filed against them).
I’m big on social media, I love it, but this trend toward over-sharing, both purposefully and unintentionally, frightens me.
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Data Mining and Social Media
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New OK Go Video Actually Tops Their Treadmill Video
At work, we do these status reports and they’ve been helpful keeping everyone briefed in a large org w/o wasting time. I’ve been doing them w/my kids in the afternoons on the way home from school. Their feedback was that we needed another section for complaints. 
Grace listed several complaints and I had to keep telling her to stay on track!
Also, note how important food is to them! Each of them included it in their successes…
Cady (12) — The drill sgt got hers out in 2 mins, and then critiqued everyone else’s
Successes
Needs to Improve
Burning Issue
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Grace (9)
Successes
Needs to Improve
Burning Issue
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Jacob (7) — I loved how pithy his responses were. All boy…
Successes
Needs to improve
Burning Issue
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Ruby (4)
Successes
Needs to Improve
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i-affiliate is an international affiliate network from Belgium, that since its conception in 2005, and after initially specializing in the local Benelux and European market, successfully expanded towards being an international affiliate network. Their distribution approach has generated them the interest of advertisers both sides of the Atlantic, allowing them to offer campaigns that can be…
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Affiliate Network Review #07: i-affiliate.net
In the Web 2.0 world there now exist social networking and blogging sites that can be used to generate extra attention for your website. The most wellknow examples of such sites are Squidoo and Hubpages.
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Tip #32 : Free backlinks on Squidoo & Hubpages
The Affstat Report is an annual research, analysis, and benchmarking report for the affiliate marketing industry. If you participate in the survey youll get the report for free. The results of this survey will also be published in Feedfront magazine.
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Tip #31: Take the Affstat survey
In another attempt to monetize YouTube, Google has decided to start showing so called Sponsored Videos on the YouTube video search result pages. This Video AdWords scheme is ideal if you have video content you want people to see, but what are the real possibilities for affiliate advertisers ?
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YouTube launches Sponsored Videos
We compiled some more ways for generating a steady or at least a more relevant flow of traffic. These methods arent free, but will continue to deliver quality traffic long after your investment has repaid itself.
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Tip #30: More traffic tips
Periodically the broad topic you’re affiliate marketing for knows spikes in terms of search volume. Keeping track of what people are looking for allows you to use this naturally existing search volume to get your advertisements shown to people who are looking for what you’re selling. The tool to do this is Google Hot…
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Tip for Beginners #26 : Paid traffic ? Use Hot Trends.
