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BlogHers Act and Other Ways to Help Myanmar Cyclone Victims

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Channel NewsAsia reported that more than 22,000 people are dead with another 41,000 missing. And BlogHer has responded. Earlier today, Lisa Stone of BlogHer let us know that BlogHers Act and Global Giving expanded the Mother's Day fundraising initiative to include support for a project for emergency relief. (I

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Ask Britt: How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online?

Have Fun - Do Good

YouTube channel. You may also want to start Twittering. Twitter is a social networking and microblogging tool where news travels fast. You can find other Twitterers who are interested in your book's topic on the TwitterPack wiki. You can see some fancy examples on BookVideos.tv and the BookVideos.tv

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Email is a critical channel. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Spamming for Good is the Wrong Description of What Dr. Mani, Roger Carr, Jen Lemens, and Other Good Personal Fundraisers Really Do!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have an ongoing relationship and he only has to ask me through one channel. And relationship building can scale into a networked approach - take a look at the most recent BlogHer's Act fundraising campaign to improve maternal health. Do they really need to get the same canned message form you in multiple channels?

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The value of attending Gnomedex: Priceless

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. Also, having super fantastic geek ways of running a conference was inspiring - I especially like the twitter speaker feedback channel. s very difficult to decide which to attend. This year, I finally got an opportunity to attend.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter reminds me so much of that BBS. But you could also connect to other people who were setting up gophers by linking to them or even conduct a chat by telnet or hangout in IRC channel. I got on the Internet in the early days when it was social media. You could log on and get ???just just in time???