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Does your nonprofit, like this meat, need some help?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. Here's how it works: Every month through May 2007, Hamburger Helper will choose one 501(c)(4) organization for a monetary grant of up to $15,000. It's interesting that they are targeting bloggers as part of their publicity strategy.

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Blogging for Writers

Have Fun - Do Good

Don’t know if they will do it in 2007. Poetry Thursday is an online project that builds community by encouraging bloggers to read and enjoy poetry, as well as sharing it with others. BlogYoNoMo (Blog Your Novel Month) Inspired by National Novel Writing Month.

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Daily News, Daily Blues

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In the past, classified advertising was the most lucrative source of advertising revenue for the publisher - Rupert Murdoch referred to it as "a river of gold" - but that river is now reduced to a trickle, leading the Economist to say that Craigslist has done more than anything to destroy the newspaper. What we need is journalism."

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Raise Money on Facebook: Four Strategies You Need to Know About

NTEN

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. Note : The original version of this article was written in 2007. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Guest Post by Deanna Zandt Measure THIS! An intro to social media ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Then you'll take time to respond to those people: you'll thank them for talking about you, or you'll direct them to a relevant article (that most likely doesn't reference you directly), or whatever the case is. My friend Beka referred me to this fabulous 28-page Social Media ROI report from Peashoot. What about blogger outreach?

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Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization's Adaption Stories!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally.

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Five Reasons Why Nonprofits Who Utilize Social Media Should Also Blog

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? The subject of nonprofits and blogging was very popular in 2006 and 2007. MySpace and Facebook weren’t being utilized by nonprofits in 2007 (except for a few early adopters) and Twitter did not exist. There are currently 133 million blogs worldwide.