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New on SSIR: Organizations and Individuals Fundraising in Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Offline : you would probably not have someone who’s had no physical connection with your organization be so excited about your work that they design and produce their own fliers about your work and then canvass their local community to raise awareness or your programs. Visit the SSIR blog to comment, or leave your thoughts below!

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. Unfortunately, they did not have releases for the children's pictures. Tough economic times mean fewer donations.

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You should take a picture of all your team gathered round the box in its hiding place. When you find it take another picture with all your group and the found box in it. After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one).

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

Museum 2.0

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. Websites are more like picture books about the museum—in virtual worlds, you can have a social, real-time, interactive experience. Let’s start with the basics.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. One possibility would have been to temporarily change our avatars to include a visual cue–like the Visible Government maple leaf–for all those officially behind the campaign.

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