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Community Is Better than Cute Cats: How to Raise Money for Your Unsexy, but Important, Cause

NTEN

Consider this simple comparison of potential reach for campaigns run by two very different nonprofits: Large Nonprofit Using Direct Mail. Send them a picture, do a profile of a person who was helped by your work, or just take a quick video from your desk saying thanks. 100,000 people. Direct Marketing Reach. 100,000 people.

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Team Obama ranked #1 most innovative by Fast Company

Connection Cafe

Almost all of which were dominated by the Internet : February 2007 : Launch of mybarackobama.com. Eventually this site draws over 2 million profiles and 35,000 volunteer groups. (To May 2007 : A grassroots Obama MySpace page hits 100,000 fans. June 2007: Obama Girl video is posted on YouTube, receiving 12 million views.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. March 27, 2007 | Hans Mundahl I have to tell you as a MySpace Consultant myself, I just posted an article on my blog about how MySpace Consultants are becoming more and more popular! he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. March 27, 2007 | Hans Mundahl I have to tell you as a MySpace Consultant myself, I just posted an article on my blog about how MySpace Consultants are becoming more and more popular! he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Another Gold Star, FTW: A Look at Achievement Systems

NTEN

Early on in video games a score was awarded to a player to keep track of how well he/she had done both personally and in comparison to others. Players are motivated to gain more achievements and points to showcase status on his/her profile. Students whom are active gain points and “Wins” badges are added to her/his profile.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites. Change.org now also sports a widget.

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