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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And organizations and movements can certainly use twitter to organize – I think that’s a great strategy – as long as the majority of those to be organized are on twitter – which is quite a stretch for most orgs or movements. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

Pressing Needs That Require Immediate Attention. You may well have pressing needs to budget for like upgrading from Windows XP and Office 2003 before April 2014 and getting newer IT equipment, for instance from TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative , that already has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It

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Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. These donations go to fund Oxfam America programs worldwide.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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