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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Interested to see if any readers here are part of an association and what you think of this new news portal! " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Crypto Donors Don’t Wear Tinfoil Hats: The 14 differences between Crypto & Traditional Donors

Whole Whale

The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. The common filter bubbles created by Facebook algorithms are no longer in play for DAOs and communities being connected through millions of chat rooms on Discord, and #cryptoTwitter.

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Biker Philanthropy: TechSoup Revs Up Donated Computer Programs for Kids

Tech Soup

We found out about BIKERSCAP when the organization's CEO, Greg Reaster , posted on our Facebook page "TechSoup has made all we do here at BIKERSCAP possible. BIKERSCAP is an all-volunteer project that started in March 2009 in the depths of the great recession. Actually, he still does. Greg Reaster (right) and supporters.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. He is a regular contributor to Philanthropy News Digest and the Huffington Post IMPACT Channel. Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Bragging on my Farmer's Market - Williamsburg wins American Farmland Trust contest

Connection Cafe

Williamsburg, Virginia is America's #1 Farmers Market! And this past weekend was particularly bountiful at my local market: Williamsburg was crowned this year as America's Favorite Farmers Market ! Plus, the effort has resulted in increased awareness of AFT's mission and helped garner new subscribers and donors.

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