Social Media Reading - 062309

What I'm reading:

• Facebook vs. Twitter: Round two with URL shorteners as the judge - Despite having more followers on Facebook than Twitter, the response on Twitter was better and the retweet factor allowed a longer sustained campaign.
• CNN Loves Twitter, But Doesn't Seem to Always Know How to Use It - A super post on TechCrunch about CNN's inability to post URLs correctly in the Twitter format. MG makes a great point about how silly it is that CNN doesn't just create its own short URL system since cnn.com is already naturally short.
  
• How Dare to Dream Fund won the givezooks! Donors' Choice Contest - Great ideas for anyone participating in a donor contest to follow: engage your web 2.0 following; engage your board; make sure that while you're encouraging people to vote you remind them what they are voting for and what winning the contest will mean to the people who serve.
• Chronicle of Philanthropy: Thinking of Banning Words from Your Charity's Glossary? Think Again - Don't hurt your fundraising and communication strategy by creating forbidden words.
• Original post from Donor Power Blog: Which words are you wasting your energy by banning