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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. The book is available on Amazon. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz.

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

Gyrus

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. Interested organizations can register to win and find out more at [link] But, it's only going until June 4th, 2010, so they'll need to get on it pretty quick to be part of it." What do you think?

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The Networked Nonprofit Roundup: Bay Area Book Party 7/23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join us on Friday, July 23, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at Pro Arts Gallery ( [link] ) at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, a stone’s throw from the Oakland City Center/12th Street BART station. For example, check out her “ 50 Young Nonprofit Leaders To Follow on Twitter &# list. More information here. Rosetta is a fellow book nerd.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. Another more recent example of Ushahidi's expanding work is its efforts in the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

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Innogive Conference Panel Resources: Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will be discussing these questions: What are some successful examples of nonprofits incorporating a mobile/social integrated strategy? The campaign is an example of an integrated social/mobile campaign that seamlessly integrates the message across different channels for different audiences. What are the best practices?

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