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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Some messages sent by Epic Change via their 180+ JustCoz participants would get zero response.

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Charitable Giving in a down economy: Performance strategies for any market

Qgiv

Communicating need is paramount to responsive generosity, with the most efficient channels being the news and press. Historical support shows that charitable response is swift in response to natural disasters, financial crises such as the Great Recession of 2008 – 2009 and the pandemic, as seen below: Revenue Trend: Human Services Benchmark.

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The Curious Case of the TerraChoice 2010 Greenwashing Report and EPEAT

Tech Soup

Our GreenTech Initiative has been very interested in understanding greenwashing since we started the program in 2008. There is good evidence that the report itself has become an example of conflict of interest and greenwashing, especially in its omission of the green IT brand, EPEAT.

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

I can stare a picture of beautiful yarn the way a foodie would study a picture in Gourmet Magazine. In 2008, I found Ravelry. Then Mathew signed a book deal with Interweave Press! .” When I’m stressed I can knit something in my head and it relaxes me. I know, it’s strange.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

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 Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was an echo campaign to complement a radio roadblock on Friday, September 19, 2008 when the NAB encouraged all radio stations to run a Red Cross PSA at 1 pm EDT. I asked my current volunteer (who happens to be a social media genius and a member of ARC's National Youth Council) to draft a "press release" announcing it.