August 2010
19 posts
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Big Expectations for (LA) Federation’s New Web... →
Article from the JewishJournal.com, starting:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles rolled out a new Web site last month, the first phase of a new initiative hoping to engage more — and younger — Jews.
“The Federation has been, in essence, an old-media model of how we communicate with our donors, and now we’re using this technology and using social media to create a two-way...
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Claire LaZebnik's book giveaway →
“When the number of people “liking” this [Facebook] page reaches 125, I’ll launch my first book giveaway.” Wrote Claire LaZebnik, author of “If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now,” on her blog.
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Second monthly Jewish Book Carnival! →
“It’s an effort to build community, so that blog writers and readers can share posts on Jewish books.”
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SXSW 2011 PanelPicker - Jewish Synergy: Social... →
Help Chaviva Galatz, the kvetchingeditor.com making the panel titled above part of SXSW 2011, by voting for it.
“This panel will extend efforts made on the Judaism 2.0 panel from 2010, and it will focus on the benefit of Social Media in synergizing the broad Jewish and Israeli communities through the wires and waves of the internet!”
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Jewish Ethiopian Community is seeking volunteer... →
Location: Manhattan, New York
Responsibilities will include: General office duties Developing and maintaining social media outlets Sending e-mails, updating newsletter Knowledge of MS Word and Excel, Google Documents
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KOH Library and Cultural Center →
Earlier this week the KOH Library and Cultural Center in Sacramento’s Mosaic Law Congregation stared its blog. They posted seven entries in 4 days.
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Beautiful Blogger Award →
There is a chain going on of blogs awarding 7 of their friends with the “Beautiful Blogger Award” after thy list 7 facts about themselves. Here is Association of Jewish Libraries’ entry.
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How Not To Twitter as a Jewish Organization →
Jewlicious blog entry detail:
Hillel’s Twitter account … is somewhat sparsely updated, forget about mentioning what’s going on this week. The worst part of the Twittering is merely throwing up links with no descriptions.
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Your "Twimprimatur," and Other Secrets of Social... →
EstherK links to an interview with her where she “went deep into blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and more.” Check out the entire interview here, for insights into making these social media work better for you, as well as stories about Jewish innovation, how to make blogging into a quasi-career…
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How the Jewish Agency Uses Twitter to Connect... →
Lots of details on the evolution of its use, but the key seemed to be:
“I updated the profile and attached my name to the account; I was finally able to project my professional self on behalf of the organization. It helped people to see that there was a voice behind the organization.”
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Blogging from Jewish Social Media Shmooze →
With lots of details from Hadassah Sabo Milner.
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Jewish Social Media Schmooze - MetroImma →
Time: August 8, 2010 from 10am to 12pm
Location: JCC of Manhattan
Jewish Social Media Schmooze is an event for Jewish authors, musicians, film and television producers, and entrepreneurs—all creative individuals that weave their Jewish heritage into their books, CDs, television, and film. Learn how creators engage in conversations and interact with their fans, followers, and inspire...
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Twitter Book Club →
Plug for upcoming discussion via Twitter with Mitchell James Kaplan, author of “By Fire, By Water.”
Organized by the Jewish Book Council.
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Yet another Jewish dating website →
Here is the press release of Internet Matches, LLC, which launched JewishMatches.com using the template they used for many other sites.
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The Future of Jewish Journalism or Anything Else →
Esther Kustanowitz reacts to JTA’s plans to became a cenral Jewish portal as mentioned by Ami Eden JTA’s Executive director. Some of her conclusios are:
That increasingly I - and presumably others - are getting our news via Facebook.
That journalism in general (and perhaps Jewish organizational life in general) will have to become and remain flexible, responsive, exciting and...
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Does the future of Jewish nonprofits rest in... →
JTA’s musing and request for answers to the question in the title. Includes 3 YouTube videos, each under a minute.
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Yerusha - A Website for Older Childless Jews →
Anna Olswanger started up Yerusha.com a website which she hopes to grow into a support site for older Jews without children.
I formed the idea of Yerusha, a worldwide organization for Jewish women like myself, and Jewish men, past normal child-bearing age, who believe they may never have children, either biologically or by adoption. I envisioned Yerusha as a way to bring these Jews together,...
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Tikkun Olam @ lightspeed →
Abe Novick writes in The Jerusalem Post about “the light speed at which information is carried can be a powerful weapon in the fight against tyranny. … Media and technology race ahead at light speed and magnify the sharp, glaring disparity with government, making it harder to contain the broken vessels.”
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Rabbi Laura Baum →
A profile of Rabbi Laura Baum’s activities at Cincinnati.Com after “The Jewish Daily Forward, a respected national newspaper, has included Baum on its list of 50 most influential female rabbis for founding the online congregation and her groundbreaking use of social media.”