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SXSW 2013 – Social by Global: Failure Is Not An F-Word!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW. This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. But guess what they are thinking ?

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Trust me.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet. Tom Dawkins, Co-Founder of StartSomeGood.com Fundraising Focus: Crowdfunding for local and global causes.

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Senator Hillary Clinton at the Service Nation Summit!

Have Fun - Do Good

Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Sen.Christopher Dodd (D-CT)) that she is a part of who will be pushing the Serve America Act of 2008. "We The Clean Energy Service Corps will create new service opportunities to fight global warming, find new sources of clean energy, create energy independence and create green jobs. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Let's discuss: join us!

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th.