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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

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Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. All are captured here ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system.

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Does your nonprofit, like this meat, need some help?

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program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. Here's how it works: Every month through May 2007, Hamburger Helper will choose one 501(c)(4) organization for a monetary grant of up to $15,000. My Hometown Helper???

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Beth Terry, Fake Plastic Fish: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. We won the costume contest. She is also an advisor to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and a contributing editor for BlogHer.com. Now that was fun!

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

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If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Raise Money on Facebook: Four Strategies You Need to Know About

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Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. Note : The original version of this article was written in 2007. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization's Adaption Stories!

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Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals.

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