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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Cn U Raise $ Via Txt?

Robert Weiner

, and the subsequent TechSoup discussion , I’m posting an analysis conducted by Sarah Grosvenor , the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Willamette University , on the potential for mobile fundraising at the University. The information below was current as of December 15, 2008.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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Research Friday: ASU is an Important Central Hub for Nonprofit Organizations

ASU Lodestar Center

& Management Student, Arizona State University. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. This kind of analysis fascinates me, and I think it can really help others understand what's really going on in the Arizona nonprofit sector. Like this article?

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion.

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Interview with Lindsay Gruber: Building Corporate Resilience through Pro Bono Volunteerism

Saleforce Nonprofit

When that happened, it became clear that the same skills were universally applicable, and the value in offering those skills became clear. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. That’s been a really big shift in volunteering over the last few years.

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Cn U Raise $ Via Txt?

Tech Soup

, and the subsequent TechSoup discussion , I'm posting an analysis conducted by Sarah Grosvenor , the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Willamette University , on the potential for mobile fundraising at the University. The information below was current as of December 15, 2008.

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