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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. Which is why Twestival Local hopes to challenge city organizers with two important questions with their selected cause: (1) What will the not-for-profit do with the funds raised? .

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What is this next generation of online giving?

Connection Cafe

Specifically, people should be able to track everything they give to their favorite causes, including time spent volunteering, miles walked or run for a cause, awareness spread via social media, as well as the dollars raised. Giving is so much more than just money and people should be empowered to see and feel good about everything they give.

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. This made curious: How did Twestival get started?

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. And for good reason. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Nonprofit Experts Weigh In: Their Best Data Tips

NonProfit Hub

“Why did you make your first gift to this charity?” Too often, data is aggregated, and many groups are lumped together, making for data that is not only inaccurate, but also potentially harmful. Your donor data is as important as money in the bank. Ask a few questions, statistical or open-ended. Consider Everything.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far.

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