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APRIL 9, 2013

Companies with a mission mix profits, charity - KansasCity.com : Or so says Dale Knoop, co-founder of RAZ Mobile, an Overland Park startup that just launched a new smart phone app that he believes will revolutionize how churches, charities and other non profit organizations raise funds.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Facebook Turns 12 Today, And Here's How It's Celebrating | Fast Company | Business + Innovation : "t’s a bit crazy when you think about it, but Facebook is 12 years old today. Twelve years on, Facebook has become the largest social media company ever. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

4 Strategic Requirements For Corporate Tweeting | Fast Company : More fundamentally, companies of all sizes are now confronting how Twitter strategies align or don’t align with their larger business strategies. Bottom line: Twitter deserves its own strategic plan as a discrete component of the larger corporate digital media plan.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

6 Services You Could Replace With Facebook Graph Search | Fast Company : 6 Services You Could Replace With Facebook Graph Search By Sarah Kessler | January 16, 2013 With the launch of Graph Social, a handful of startups that integrate with Facebook are now competing with the mothership.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Technology news,events,jobs,andcompanyprofiles - Techvibes.com : We learned this morning that Salesforce was "decimating" Radian6's marketing and social community departments.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Beyond School Supplies: How DonorsChoose is Crowdsourcing Real Education Reform | Fast Company | Business Innovation : The charity is using its networking strength to provide teachers with new kinds of resources, and its data to hold bureaucrats accountable.'

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MARCH 1, 2013

Facebook, Amazon and Google All Help Charity Create Cancer-Busting Mobile Game | Fast Company : Programmers and engineers from some of the biggest tech companies are teaming up with a cancer charity in the UK to create a mobile game that will aid research into the disease.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

As Sandy Became #Sandy, Emergency Services Got Social | Fast Company : As New Yorkers took to Twitter to voice concerns, request aid, and offer real-time help, organizations were--more than ever before--there and ready to respond on their native platforms.

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JULY 6, 2011

Unlocking Viral Secrets On Facebook: MIT Study | Fast Company : "Brands can increase the number of people who install their Facebook apps by 400% through a combination of private and newsfeed messaging, according to a new MIT study.

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JULY 18, 2011

Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming | Fast Company : "The most surprising takeaway from the recent Pew Research Center study, 'Social Networking Sites and Our Lives,' wasn't that 80% of Americans regularly use the Internet or that 60% of Web users have a social network account--double the number in 2008, with the vast majority (..)

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

10 Tips From Boing Boing On Making Online Content Sing | Fast Company : Is your blog a snooze? Are people unfollowing you faster than you can tweet? Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing shares his strategies for killer online conten

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

How Tech Is Helping the Haiti Recovery | Fast Company: "Since the 2010 earthquake, not-for-profits and corporations have developed new technologies to better deliver services to Haitians, transforming aid in disaster areas everywhere."

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Fast Company: "All is not well with the Pepsi Refresh Project, an online cause marketing campaign that allows participants to vote on where the company donates its cash. Has Pepsi's Refresh Project Been Compromised By Cheaters?

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Text Messages Aren't Enough When Natural Disasters Strike | Fast Company : The American Red Cross has released a new survey that claims Americans are increasingly relying on the Internet and social media for disaster information. According to the Red Cross, 18% of Americans regularly rely on Facebook to obtain disaster information.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Skype's Acquisition of GroupMe Gives Microsoft A Social Life | Fast Company : The reaction to Skype's proposed acquisition of the New York City-based group messaging service GroupMe for $85 million has been nearly universal: Good for Skype. It's the latest in a string of high-profile gambits in the world of social grouping technology.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Fast Company | Business Innovation : Over the last month or so, a few keen-eyed Android users may have been startled by some peculiar permission requests when they tried to update their Facebook app. Why Is Facebook''s App Asking To Read Your Text Messages? One request asks to "read your text messages (SMS or MMS)."'

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APRIL 9, 2013

App Store | Fast Company | Business Innovation : Vine, Twitter''s six-second video app is at the top of the App Store download chart in the U.S. Vine Becomes Number One App In U.S. The news was announced on Twitter by Vine''s creative director, Rus Yusupov, with a screenshot (but no backslap-fist pump video offering, sadly.)

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JULY 6, 2012

How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Social Philanthropy | Fast Company : How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Social Philanthropy BY Lydia Dishman | 07-06-2012 | 9:30 AM Razoo CEO Lesley Mansford is an interactive entertainment and gaming veteran who’s now challenging nonprofits and individuals to raise the bar (and bigger donations) on social (..)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Organizing for change through social technologies: McKinsey Global Survey results | McKinsey & Company'

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JUNE 17, 2015

Tech Corps's Leading Edge | Fast Company | Business + Innovation : 'via Blog this' Meet The Geeks: The D.C.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

New Online Catalogue for Philanthropy in Washington, DC | Leading Companies for Good | Fast Company: "Now more than ever, individuals, corporations, and foundations want to make informed choices when they make financial contributions to nonprofit organizations. So how do you know which organizations to support?

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MARCH 10, 2011

NPR Scandal Explodes Plans for New Social Media Campaign | Fast Company: "Before the manufactured scandal, Fast Company had learned that NPR was about to ramp up a sophisticated social media strategy to rally their politically-savvy audience, including efforts at many of its nearly 800 local affiliates, roughly three months after it soft launched its (..)

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JUNE 11, 2012

Advertise Like Your Grandfather | Fast Company : A new study by Facebook brings some big news that, curiously, at first blush might not seem like much news at all. The Secret To Marketing Success On Facebook? It's this: If you create successful ads for the social network, just do the same thing you would do if you were advertising on TV.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

The History of Social Networking | Fast Company: "n case you hadn't heard, social networking is big. Sites like Facebook and Twitter dominate the tech news sites with every move they make getting attention. How much are they worth? Who's using them now? What changes are coming? As with everything, social networking has a history."

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Why Facebook Browsing Annihilates Web Browsing | Fast Company: "* Technology * Designs * Ethonomics * LeadershipMagazine Community JobsFC Member BlogWhy Facebook Browsing Annihilates Web BrowsingBY Mark KirbySat Nov 6, 2010This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.Recent research suggests that (..)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Google Grants $775,000 To Code2040, A Nonprofit Fostering Diversity In Tech | Fast Company | Business + Innovation : ''via Blog this'''

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Giving A Kick-Ass Presentation In The Age Of Social Media | Fast Company : Seven (somewhat snarky) new rules for public speaking in the social media era.

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JULY 24, 2015

Open Access: How A Nonprofit Is Giving Techies Without Tuition Their Shot | Fast Company | Business + Innovation : 'via Blog this'

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APRIL 25, 2011

The Beggar 'Bot: Highest-Tech Solution Yet To Charity Fatigue | Fast Company : "Korean researchers, with input from MIT's famous Media Lab, have been developing their 'urban donation motivating robot,' a.k.a. DONA, for a while, and just unveiled the most advanced prototype yet.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock | Beth's Blog on Fast Company | Fast Company: "Women in Nonprofit Technology Who RockBy: FC Expert Blogger Beth KanterMon Jan 26, 2009 at 2:59 PMThis blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone.In featuring about.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Fast Company: "What was Google thinking? When the search company launched Buzz a couple of months ago, engineers came up with what they thought was a clever way to kick-start the new social-networking service: They would build Buzz directly into Gmail. Does Privacy on Facebook, Google, and Twitter Even Matter?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

7 Places To Watch Videos On Vine, Even If You Don't Have The App | Fast Company : 7 Places To Watch Videos On Vine, Even If You Don't Have The App By Christina Chaey | February 1, 2013 Thanks to Vine, there are more websites than ever that let you watch videos of strangers.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

SocialFlow Tries to Crack Science of Twitter | Fast Company: "Social media experts are a dime a dozen. Self-proclaimed gurus boast of their ability to manipulate the blogosphere, to make anything go viral--or, in the words of one social media satirist, to 'jack the strat.'

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MARCH 23, 2012

Invisible Children's Web Strategist Gives A Crash Course In Going Viral | Fast Company : Fast Company recently had the opportunity to speak with Javan Van Gronigen, the San Diego-based digital strategist and web designer behind Invisible Children's viral new media campaign.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media | Fast Company: "In this excerpt from his new book UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging. author Scott Stratten shows the profane acts users of Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn commit. How many are you guilty of?"

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MARCH 31, 2011

Check This Out: Google's Very Own "Like" Button | Fast Company: "You click on stuff that your friends like. It's a simple enough fact, but it's tremendously important. It's the insight behind the Facebook 'like' button, wherein you can share with your social network what links interest you.

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JULY 30, 2009

How Do Companies Manage Multiple Users on Twitter and Other Social Media Accounts? Identity Matters | Fast Company: "How Do Companies Manage Multiple Users on Twitter and Other Social Media Accounts?BY

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