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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Effective Fundraising with Facebook Causes

NTEN

Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4 million people who now write on the wall about their experiences with cancer, donate money to the Arkansas Children's Hospital, and post pictures on the cause. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. So, Michelle started a cause.

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Because They Have Tabasco in Them

NTEN

Fabulous NTEN member David Neff just alerted me to the winners of their second annual Great American Smokeout Video Contest. Kids and animals: a sure-fire way straight to the heart of anyone lucky enough to have one (a heart, that is). Video is so easy now, an eight year old can do it!

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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Offering free webinars, gated content (such as research reports or infographics), online contests, and online petitions have the ability to grow your email list quickly by hundreds or thousands, but require an ongoing time and financial investment to create the content. Nonprofit Tech for Good recommends ILLUSIO and NTEN.

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Changing Civic Engagement In New Orleans One Video Blog Post at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have just returned from a week in New Orleans where I participated in the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week.

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450 Email Subject Lines From End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Your year-end gift helps others find life after cancer. Deadline for InterAction’s14th Annual Photo Contest is January 15. A Community That Gives: NTEN Member News. Hurry – just 2 days left. This can’t keep happening to dogs! There’s still time to reduce your taxes & double your impact!

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, the organization launched the United State Spay Day Photo Contest in 2009 as one part of their overall effort that included broadcast media and other social media outreach efforts as well as offline event. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.