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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Crowdsourced Campaigns for Causes: Benefiting social good or just social?

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Win Cash Monies for Changing the World

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The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). The " Change the Web Challenge " will give away more than $10,000 in prizes.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. And that essentially would boil down to a big old pissing contest. (“Yes! 2 admin 09.18.07

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. It lets you tap into a stream of people who care and may be committed to your organization, cause, program, or subject area. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Sometimes it helps to have a colleague or blogging buddy.

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Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Main | Care2 Launches Americas Favorite Animal Shelter Contest » Monday Oct 13 2008 Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) Monday, October 13, 2008 at 01:21PM | by James OMalley Nonprofits take note: Google Analytics software application has shattered previous barriers to analyzing and optimizing websites.

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106 Free or Low-Cost Online Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social Warfare is a WordPress plugin that adds visually compelling social share buttons to your website or blog. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users understand the premise of HTML and can make simple edits to WordPress or MailChimp generated HTML code.

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