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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? How many beaches does America have? They were busy drawing planets or rockets.

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Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

I had all kinds of preconceived notions about what I would find in Jakarta, but nothing prepared me for the massive skin diseases, people with all of their skin flaking off, people who had leprosy so badly that most of their fingers and toes were gone, and their skin was so mottled it looked like it was sliding off their bodies.

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Tips to Engage Baby Boomers and Seniors Through Social Media

Care2

They have a desire to pass wealth to charity vs.their children. Smith, also added that Boomers not only drive the economy with their purchasing power, recent studies show that Baby Boomers now boast the highest growth rate of entrepreneurship in America. You can also check out the slides below. According to the U.S.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Here are my slides from the presentation. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r=

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.