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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

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Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme

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Don't Join New Social Networks Without Thinking. If I learned anything from the Shelfari and the Spock , it is to use your critical thinking skills before joining a social network that a trusted friend has invited you to join. Connie Benson's advice on networking will continue to stick with me.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

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Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? Here's your chance to vote on sessions and suggest speakers.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

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Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Micro-philanthropy. Social networking. membership.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

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author Laura Arrillaga-Andresseen (who wrote the foreword to my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ). I learned this from Giving 2.0 So before making my donation, I knew and trusted the colleagues who are running the program and I did due diligence on the price of the raincoats.

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