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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. Details here. Not at all?

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23 Top Virtual Fundraising Ideas

CauseVox

After NTEN had to cancel their annual conference, they set up a crowdfunding page where people could still donate to help cover lost revenue from the conference. Virtual Awards Ceremony. If you’re struggling to think of content for a livestream fundraiser, a great option is to make it an awards ceremony. Virtual Live-Stream.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While it is probably difficult to absolutely prove cause and effect, implementing a crowd artistic creation requires a discussion about letting go of control or at least being explicit about how creative contributions will be accepted or curated or added to the work. Do you accept everything or is there curation?

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

It’s the news of Beyonce’s pregnancy announced during the MTV Video Awards that takes the honor of #1. Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. " Tweets per second (TPS) is now a proxy for the velocity of the spread of news. When it comes to TPS, surprisingly Jobs’ death ranks #5. A newborn life wins over death.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ). I find it very hard to measure quality with numbers.

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450 Email Subject Lines From End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Best Subject Line Award goes to Oxfam America Ambassador Aziz Ansari for his “Bad fruitcake news, Steve” message. The Humane Society of the United States gets the award for Best-Email-That-Looked-Like-The-CEO-Sent-It-From-An-iPhone message. SC Sierra Club — 7th Annual Awards Ceremony Invitation. We ♥ goats.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of Things We Like 2011)

NTEN

Yes, NTEN Connect readers do like cat videos! Now, since you've already stopped fondling the hammer , stopped treating your web designers like collage artists , stopped treating your e-mail template as something that should just work , stopped. We hear you, and NTEN will support that work in new ways in 2012. storytelling.