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Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti

Have Fun - Do Good

When a tragedy like the earthquake in Haiti happens, and the images and stories are so disturbing, it is normal to feel extreme emotions: despair, depression, anxiety that help isn't getting their fast enough, guilt, even denial. Eventually, Haiti will be out of the 24-hour news cycle, but its people will still need support.

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Things We Like (February 2010)

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2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Find out more in MobileActive.org's " Definitive Guide to Mobile Fundraising " While it seems that nearly every Super Bowl advertiser had been told by a research firm that men are feeling emasculated in 2010, at least the half time show was good.

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

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After all, there's no guarantee that, without our fine cat video curation, you'd always end up with something as funny as " Staticky Cat vs. 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

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

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After all, there's no guarantee that, without our fine cat video curation, you'd always end up with something as funny as " Staticky Cat vs. 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

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

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On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. .

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Spring Ahead, Fundraising Look Back

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While I'm definitely looking ahead to longer days, azaleas, and tulips, from a fundraising perspective, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what happened last fall. Luckily, Blackbaud issued the 2010 Online Giving Report last week. Haiti-related giving had a big impact on online giving trends. billion in total fundraising.

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Technology Trends for Nonprofits in 2011

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To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. This is an indication that nonprofits are definitely moving in the right direction, which is also reflected in the Nielsen Study (What Americans Do Online, August 2010 ).

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