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APRIL 9, 2012

The Dangers of an Inactive E-Mail List - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : The Dangers of an Inactive E-Mail List April 5, 2012, 9:20 am By Nicole Wallace Inactive e-mail lists have always posed a challenge to fundraisers, but as spam filters get more sophisticated, the stakes are getting higher, Dan Atherton, a consultant at Chapman Cubine Adams Hussey, told participants in San Francisco at the Nonprofit Technology C

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APRIL 9, 2012

Engineering Serendipity | TechCrunch : To move forward, the metrics these startups should be obsessed with should not just be how many users signed up, how many downloads they have, or how many pings they sent out, but how many real connections between people are actually being made. This is the Holy Grail for engineering serendipitous people discovery: alerting users immediately that somebody is nearby, but also making sure that’s a connection the person actually wanted to make.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Connection Caf: Homepage | Internet Marketing, Social Media and Web 2.0 for Nonprofit Organizations : People engaging in social media are interested in being social, which means they want to establish relationships with the organizations & individuals that they follow. Effective social media campaigns help foster these relationships by engaging followers in two-way communication.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Street Fundraisers Get Smarter on Technology - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Daryl Upsall, a consultant in Madrid who advises nonprofits on the technique, said at a session of the Association of Fundraising Professionals annual meeting, in Vancouver, that street fundraising is growing more common and is now used in 35 countries.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of #Hashtag Spamming?  Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits : Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of #Hashtag Spamming? April 9, 2012 tags: Twitter A recent study concluded that only about one-third of tweets are worth reading and with Twitter now generating 340 million tweets per day, that’s approximately 266 millions tweets that would have been better left untweeted.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Meet the Winners of the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge! : The 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge was a great success, with more than 250 total submissions from social benefit organizations in 24 countries! We were impressed with the quality of the photo slideshows and videos, and all the hard work that went into them.

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