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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

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Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. American Cancer Society saw a 10:1 return on investment from this effort.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: December 4th

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Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg In this article about Twitter and story-telling, NTEN members Beth Kanter and Thomas Negron are mentioned. David Neff shares the social media guidelines he helped develop for the American Cancer Society. (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Thank you, David!

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Book Giveaway: Twitterville by Shel Israel (140 Characters of Twitterville Fame)

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From the Flickr Twitterville Group Shel Israel has written a book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. Fabulous storytelling. Better yet, add it as a photo to the Twitterville Flickr Group. It's a great read! Better yet, I've got a couple of advanced copies to give away.

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And the Twitterville Book Winners Are.

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The launch party was lots of fun - lots of Twitterville's most prominent residents were there as you can see from the #tbash stream and the photos in Flickr by Kenneth Yeung. Betsy Aoki purchased three copies. I love Shel's writing - he tells one great story after another. So stay tuned. The 13 winners.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

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With the wildlife we're compiling, We could keep the scientists smiling, And lose the grave and stern decorum that was our storytelling before, 'Though tweets are short and fitted,' I said, we'll increase the total submitted. Flickr bc have established presence there and can cross post for bigger influence. set audience. picked tools.

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