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Nonprofits and Pinterest: Nonprofit Blog Carnival Round-up

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. ~ Pinterest: One Nonprofit's Story , Susan's Site • Marc van Gurp highlighted the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Israel's "Pinsulin" campaign. Pinsulin: repin for those who pin 12 times a day , osocio • Christine Sculati created four Pinterest Boards to raise awareness about the California State Parks crisis. ~

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? I interviewed some digital natives last week about their use of causes and one thing they mentioned as application fatigue -- don't respond to every request to join a cause and delete them.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. . Was it all hype? . She also mentioned that the Case Foundation will be doing the giving challenge for a second time , so stay tuned.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Objective : Increase donations for the soup kitchens, while also communicating an individual’s impact on the cause. Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool. Provide a product.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Debbas who was in Iran at the time, risking his life said, "It helped because I didn't want to die anonymously and we can discredit raising awareness.". He said that he was negotiations. Cheeky Geeky.

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Is A Downer News Cycle A Factor in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Success?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But according to news reports , it has increased awareness and dollars raised for ALS research. She challenged her friends to donate to ALS and to match their donation to another cause saying “Let’s spread good intentions, but wisely.” The association reports $15.6

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TwitCause, a service not unlike the popular fundraising application Causes on Facebook, only built on top of Twitter has been implementing some new interesting twists on click fundraising on Twitter. As a basic service, TwitCause will find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it.

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