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Book Giveaway: Twitterville by Shel Israel (140 Characters of Twitterville Fame)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From the Flickr Twitterville Group Shel Israel has written a book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. It's a great read! Fabulous storytelling. Better yet, I've got a couple of advanced copies to give away.

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And the Twitterville Book Winners Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. And Congrats to Shel Israel on the launch of his book! I also had 17 copies to give away and delighted to meet United Linens and Walter Akana in person!

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organization(s) : Macmillan Cancer Support. Organization(s) : mGive & Keep A Child Alive, mGive & the Washington Nationals, The MLB and the Children’s National Medical Center, mGive & The All-Star Game, Stand Up for Cancer, and Make a Wish Foundation. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel).

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. . Stacey is doing this with gratitude, Drew is doing it by blame (blaming his cancer). If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it.

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? Further, each cause is given a group page that has familiar Facebook tools like a wall -- the Cancer Research cause, for example, has nearly 8,000 wall posts. When just the top 5 causes reach about 7.5

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Recap of Unite for Sight '09 Global Health Conference, and Innovative Open Health Tools

Forum One

Susan Blumenthal , with whom I had the pleasure of traveling to Israel last year, spoke of an initiative during her tenure as the Assistant U.S. through which she convinced the DoD, CIA, and NASA to convert the same technology used to track missiles in space into machines that detect breast cancer and save thousands of lives.

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NetSquared Goes to 14NTC. And to Your Hometown too

Tech Soup

Melbourne, Australia: ‘Hack to Help’ kids with Cancer - March – 23. Guatemala: Guatemala EgarageTec - Visita de Experto de Israel - Harold. San Francisco, CA: We’re going to the Geeks for Good Jam! Friday, March 21. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared kenya : Trainer of trainers. Monday, March 24. Wednesday, March 26.