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National Day of Unplugging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the press release, the first NDU last March reached tens of millions of people internationally. Since then, unplugging has become the movement of the moment, with everyone from the New York Times to Arianna Huffington focusing attention on our overly plugged-in society. Kids are afflicted too.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue.

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

Then Mathew signed a book deal with Interweave Press! Here’s an in-progress photo from the elbow detail knit in September 2010. After nearly well over a year of working together, we finally met in person for the first time this past January in New York City.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Ramp Up their Social Media

Care2

If your communications team is still solely focused on distributing press releases and pitching newspaper reporters, you are missing out on major opportunities to generate earned media and reach your target audiences via multiple channels. For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 Here’s why.

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Chase Community Giving Advisory Board Names 17 Additional Charities to Receive Grants - MarketWatch

AFP Blog

PRESS RELEASEChase Community Giving Advisory Board Names 17 Additional Charities to Receive Grants - MarketWatch: "NEW YORK, Oct 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Chase Community Giving Advisory Board today announced a final list of 17 additional small and local charities to share a portion of more than $500,000 in grants, receiving $30,000 each.

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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, The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event.