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What Are Your Best Tips for Organizing or Facilitating a Charity 2.0 Event?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In total, the event raised over $35,000 for charities and non-profits in less than 2 weeks. Neff from the America Cancer Society quipped during our panel at SXSW, "Twitter meetups just to meet are so 2008. As my colleague David J. We want to meet up and do something with more purpose than just have a few beers."

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Digital Strategies for Community Foundations: COF Knight Digital Media Center Workshop Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She told the story of “ Poop_Strong ” who describes himself in his Twitter profile as “31 year-old sustainability PhD student fighting Stage IV colon cancer. He launched a web site called Poop Strong , a node to Lance Armstrong cancer nonprofit Live Strong.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. You have to opt out of it, but most people give because many in Jordan have been touched by cancer.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer.

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Podcast on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Non-Profits Blogging. Successful examples of MOD/ACS - facilitate the use of blogs by people they serve and those people tell the organization's story. This project, in part, involved gathering 20 colon cancer survivors to relate their stories online -- part of the " Fabulous at Fifty " project.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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