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Our Voice Social Media Breakfast during Barcamp Nonprofits last Friday generated mixed reactions from the attendees on the day and in follow up write up posts. We have seen at least one person coming back from the event with a specific hangout planned for freelancers working with nonprofits - which is great news - but to convince more of our readers to start experimenting with this medium, here is a short list of things you can use the Google Plus Hangouts for: 1. Meetings - just imagine the amount of time and money you can save on meetings designed for larger amount of attendees. I saw few #barcampnfp...


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I am really happy to see this presentation featured on SlideShare as it clearly is a showcase of how a large nonprofits could use this particular social platform effectively for document sharing, raising their profile as transparent organisation and most of all - contributing to the public set of data! There is nothing better than an open organisation contributing with their insights to to the public domain. You can find this project of Department of Economic and Social Affairs on SlideShare here. UN DESA: SlideShare Network Case Study View more presentations from SlideShare Pro


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It's really good to see Cadbury UK using fairly new social network Google+ to run activities engaging with brand ambassadors! It you go to their branded page you will see that their friends can now comment on the status to be included in a team of chosen tasters. Maybe the social network is new but the idea is not. There are many brands out there using their already existing fans to build stronger on-line relationships with the perspective of those people becoming int he future loyal brand advocates. With suggested Google hangouts for the chosen team and access to unique experiences (tasting...


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Join us for a drink tomorrow in..Geneva!;) You have seen this announcement already on our blog, but as we still have a few places left we would like to remind you that we will be meeting for informal networking event. For more details please check our meetup page here. Hope to see you there!


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We had a great event this Friday! We are still collecting all the insights from our team but for now check out all the notes from the event: [View the story "Barcamp Nonprofits London 2012" on Storify]


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One of the major limitations of Barcamp Nonprofits is location so we have decided to invite some of our virtual friends to join us on the day for a short Google+ hangout. At around 10.30AM next Friday Voice team will host Social Media Breakfast (#VSMB) on this virtual platform inviting guests from all over the world. As event attendees you do not need to do anything – you will be able to join in during the morning preparations and before the first session, but if you want to get in touch with the attendees of the hangout in advance or after the event please refer to the event site and meetup...


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We are almost there – slowly starting to celebrate Social Media Week globally. There will be quite a few very interesting events in London next week and Barcamp Nonprofits is joining in too. On Friday at 4PM we will be hosting small panel discussion with Euan Semple, David Dixon, Rachel Beer and myself. We will each spend about 10 minutes presenting on social media adoption in nonprofit sector looking at collaboration in particular. Social Media is changing the way nonprofits operate. On-line collaboration provides fascinating alternative opportunities for fundraising, campaigning and volunteering...


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Pinterest - social bookmarking network dedicated to sharing of visuals has brought the idea of bookmarking back to fashion. Why is is picking up on importance nowadays? After it has been mentioned in quite a few predictions for 2012 Pinterest has gained traction. I personally believe that websites become popular to us when most of our friends start joining them and suddenly we start to see our inbox full of invitations, follows or other reactions. Time will tell if Pinterest IS the next thing for now we here at Voice can see increasingly more and more interactions moving to this bookmarking...


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Today we are celebrating Safe Internet Practice Day dedicated to the relationship between children and grown ups. It has been celebrated since 2004 and this year we are hosting sessions for primary school children. We hope you will use this day to talk to kids about their experience of Internet too. Here are few tips on how to start: UK Safer Interner Center has a great pack on-line here for all ICT teachers. There is a dedicated website on celebrations of Safe Internet Practice day, but you can find materials also on Facebook and Twitter. Check out also InSafe webpage for news updates...


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Voice is excited to be sponsoring Barcamp Nonprofits, a day long unconference full of sessions about social media, tech and non-profits! It’s a great day for people from all the relevant sectors to get together and talk about digital innovation, digital fundraising, campaigning and so much more. You can find out more about the event itself at www.barcampnonprofits.com. It is all happening on the 17th of February in London and unfortunately it is all booked up! But you can still put your name on the waiting list if you would like to come, just pop over to the Barcamp website. Sylwia &...


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