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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

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I found this so amusing that I immediately shared with a colleague who commented that he didn’t realize he needed penguin drama in his life until he heard about this. Popular social media channels such as Reddit, BoredPanda and BuzzFeed shared our posts and it was even covered on news channels across the US.

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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

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Beforehand, in the planning phase: A short timeframe limits others’ ability to build online context about you. Megabloggers like Tim O’Reilly , Om Malik , Austin Hill , Michael Geist , Tara Hunt , Mathew Ingram and others generated a ton of traffic and awareness.

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Lessons Learned from the HealthCare.gov Rollout

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So, in the spirit of learning from the past, and fully aware that is this Monday-morning quarterbacking, here are a few politically neutral “lessons learned” from the launch that will hopefully help with your next nonprofit technology project. As always, comments are welcome and appreciated! Selection and Procurement.

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