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An Example of How To Pitch a Blogger: Global Giving UK and Philanthropy Predictions for 4th Quarter 2008

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

David shares why he decided to respond to the blogger outreach - a counterpoint to my advice about what not to do: I went along because an email from Svetlana was a model of how an organization can reach out to bloggers. As David notes, the pitch was personal just like their giving model.

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Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff: Bake Bread, Give Dough

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Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Here's how it works. Join the campaign.

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10 Social Media Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations (and How To Track Them)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. “ Hits &# are not the metric to monitor. Blog Traffic. I only launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 I was wrong.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Check out this interesting Giving Calculator ). What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing.

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Nonprofit Technology Link Love

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There were a number of social media influentials who reached out to their networks helping to contributing to a community culture of giving on Twitter. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.