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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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It’s easy to imagine that the academic research may eventually serve as the building blocks for a unified theory of how to raise money. Stars — movie stars, rock stars, sports stars — exercise a ludicrous influence over the public consciousness. “Many of them work, some don’t — it’s a trial-and-error process.” Well, who is?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Project Agape, a company that built the first causes application for Facebook, has surpassed 1 million users to their application and raised over $100,000 — in about 1 month.

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Tools Galore in Online Communication - Women Who Tech 2009

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Example of this being used effectively and in meaningful way: the White House opened Twitter during swine flu outbreak to take questions from the general public and the next day had expert answer questions on the White House blog. The tools and points she covered included: Social Networks. Only 0.8 % have more than 1,000.

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