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How Advocacy Fits Into Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Strategy

NonProfit Hub

When you reinforce your mission and publicly support the policies that impact your cause, it provides an additional platform to discuss your organization with potential supporters. You may choose to use platforms such as social media (like Twitter or Facebook) to publicly call them out. Data licensing. Targeted messaging.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Best of the Decade for Museums

Museum 2.0

I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Next week, we'll discuss the worst trends from the decade. (I admit some of my best included a big of the worst side of the best). We transformed from transmit to recieve.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live on August 15: Online Privacy

Tech Soup

From the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act to "do not track" browser settings, Internet privacy has been at the forefront of discussions about our rights online. RSVP today and join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag : #NPLive. Expert Guests. Prior to joining TechSoup. Jacob earned his J.D.

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Guest Post by Robert Rosenthal: VolunteerMatch Now In the Creative Commons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Robert Rosenthal, of VolunteerMatch After the President’s call to serve during National Volunteer Week, the VolunteerMatch team held lengthy discussions about how the best way for us to help engage a new generation of volunteers inspired by the new President’s words. The sky is the limit.

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For one thing, the line between internal and external discussions is thin. Anyone can participate or contribute to their Network strategy planning discussions which are also shared on the program's blog. Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site.

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The licenses let you pick how to publish your work and grant others the right to reuse it. The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution.

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