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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit?

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Join the surprise party for Beth Kanter!

Amy Sample Ward

In her birthday wish post , Beth announces that she’s trying to send 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530. Last week, Stacy Monk and I were chatting and thought that our community could help smash that goal by raising much more funds as well as awareness for the work the Sharing Foundation does in Cambodia.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Almost half the world’s children now live in urban areas; the report calls for greater emphasis on identifying and meeting their needs.

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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Great reads from around the web on May 14th

Amy Sample Ward

10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media - Max Gladwell has a guest post at Mashable: "Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Take a look at their entire list!

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Effective Uses of Social Media for Fundraising

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For the Canadian Olympic Foundation, it's a two-part process. " So, in the case of Canadian Olympic Foundation, donations & fundraising form the core activity of the online community. Meredith Campbell, Director of Fundraising & Marketing for the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation of Australia, thinks so.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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