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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Okay, with all these contests perhaps you're worried about Cause Fatigue. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. Projects working in the U.S.

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Why "Free Agent" Social Communities Rock

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The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The free agent community exists on a social network and decides, as a group, to raise funds for an unafilliated nonprofit organization.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » New York Times Deathwatch

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Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Reading it you get the sense that these folks just won’t face the music.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Online Fundraising in a Bad Economy - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The ability to create contests and pass out kudos enables the non profit to help the members to change their shopping and benefit the charity. From asmallworld.org to facebook to any tiny niche ning community. February 7, 2009 | victorseo Thanks for your comments Victor. (she I have two observations to share.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

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The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Technical consideration: The site should be built on a non-proprietary platform rather than Ning to address privacy concerns. Vote for this Idea].

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