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My big birthday is coming up this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Remix Contest. Your favorite cause - include URL -tag it beth5.0. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause. Looks like I'm not the only Blogher celebrating a milestone birthday! birthday card! Need some inspiration? kanter/beth5.0.
Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Crowdsourced Campaigns for Causes: Benefiting social good or just social?
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In addition to all of the ways I’ve been solicited for money – I’ve been asked to vote for a nonprofit who was competing in the IdeaBlob contest , reminded to bring recycled bags the next time I shopped at Trader Joe’s, and I was hit up by my neighbor who is a Girl Scout and bought the obligatory box (or two) of Thin Mints."
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