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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. W hen you think of organizations and nonprofits that have made effective use of Web 2.0 The cool part? 264 on Ourmedia.

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Meet A Social Butterfly Who Cares About Nonprofits Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Currently, my day job is a graduate student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism where I will graduate this month. Next, do a social media scan of your non-profit and/or cause using Technorati or a Google blog search. How can you know how to help further a cause, meet needs, etc.,

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Here's how to search on Technorati. Found from this Technorati Search ).

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature.

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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

Have Fun - Do Good

Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. Even if you never go beyond this step, at least you'll have a list of new media to send event announcements to. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0"

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) I promise (!) at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?