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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

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money. Was it all hype? .

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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. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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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 See this piece by MacAskill for an explanation.).

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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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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter. A Hybrid of Cause Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility. We think it is a hybrid between cause marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility Programs.

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