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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With so much stressful, depressing news in the world today, positive news stands out. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. It’s a good practice to tweet content relevant to breaking news stories. Like mentions and replies.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets.

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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Great reads from around the web on February 11th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The initiative seeks to support ordinary people in accomplishing extraordinary things by helping them to tackle national and global challenges.

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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

If you'd like to learn more about national and global hunger issues, check out the national and international organizations listed below. For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. Hat tip to Tyson Foods Hunger Relief 's post Hunger Twitterers ).

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways. That journalist will love you for it. .

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

is a rich country and, as of 2011, ranks as the most generous nation in the world, 1 only five percent of its charitable giving goes to international causes. In some countries, $100 can send a child to school for a whole year or feed an entire family for one month. New York: Random House, 2009. In fact, though the U.S.