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Integration: it’s what you need
The late Roy Castle Alongside all the other FB news, there were 2 pieces of speculation this week which are worth taking a moment to consider. The first was the suggestion that Facebook are planning on...
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World Food Programme hosted hangout
On the 30th of May, the World Food Programme used Google+ to host a Q&A session live from the Sahel region of northern Africa. The hangout featured some notables from the world of development, plus...
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Picture this: 3 ways to use images
Using pictures on the web used to be a bit of a no-no, but as dial-up is consigned to history and we all get super fast broadband (ahem) the sky’s the limit for using compelling images as part of our...
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How YouTube is working for charities
YouTube seems to be evolving: 2012 has seen the launch of its human rights channel, the extension of its live streaming service to more users through Hangouts on Air, and now it seems that the rise of...
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Citizen Social: inspirational uses of social media for citizen journalism
Social media, and the mobile technology that supports it, has given to millions of ordinary people around the world the ability to record, comment and share their experiences. YouTube’s human rights...
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Is now the time to get pinning?
If social media was pop music, then Pinterest was last year’s runaway Christmas number one. Maintaining that level of interest was always going to prove difficult, but with 10m users (and growing)...
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How can social media help support volunteering?
Volunteering has never been more in the news, what with the huge success of volunteers at both the London Olympics and Paralympics. Having been to the Paralympics this week, I’ve seen for myself the...
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5 tips for working Facebook’s newsfeed to your advantage
It’s an amazing fact that only 0nly 16% of your Facebook posts actually appear on the newsfeeds of people who like your page. Given that 40% of people using FB spent most of their time on their...
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Foodbanks and Facebook make a tasty combination
Yesterday was World Food Day, and the UK’s network of foodbanks found themselves in the news. The Guardian quoted a Trussell Trust report that showed that the number of people receiving help from...
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Empowering staff and volunteers to use social media: a guest post by Matt...
As we all know, Barack Obama yesterday won a second term as President of the United States of America. His “Four more years” tweet shortly before his victory speech is already the most retweeted tweet...
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