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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

Balloon ", let alone our most popular link: Yes, gentle readers, it gives us great pleasure to re-present your 2010 "Things We Like" champion: " An Engineer's Guide to Cats ". (We Maybe it's true what Fast Company wrote, that " Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental ". Thanks for the reminder.) Why were the cat videos so popular?

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

Balloon ", let alone our most popular link: Yes, gentle readers, it gives us great pleasure to re-present your 2010 "Things We Like" champion: " An Engineer's Guide to Cats ". (We Maybe it's true what Fast Company wrote, that " Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental ". Thanks for the reminder.) Why were the cat videos so popular?

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007.

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Will Celebrity Endorsed Campaigns Increase Activism?

Care2

But do celebrity endorsements across different channels work these days? For example, before helping to launch the ONE campaign, Bono was known for his activism around Africa and AIDS. He has been able to bring enormous attention to ONE and the issues they work on. Campaigns Can Go Viral In Smaller Networks. It depends.

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#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. That’s where I met Zawadi Nyong’o , a young Kenyan woman and social change activist. When Otieno learned he needed a fourth surgery for his cancer, he reached out to Zawadi Nyong’o who was also an Africa Cancer Foundation volunteer.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Direct Content.

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Personalizing the Online Fundraising Experience

NTEN

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. In 2010, 75 volunteers participated. Provide Contact Information.