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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While Allan has been in Vietnam celebrating the lunar New Year and eating exotic foods, he has still managed to get online, play with Pipes, and IM me about it. Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). celebration of shared sensations of change? A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

On MoreBirthdays.com, people can support, give, and celebrate surviving cancer or loved ones by creating a birthday wish through e-cards, music video, or musician phone call. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays. Over and over again.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area.

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Seth Godin's Non Post About Nonprofits: Deers in the Headlights?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is a celebrity-marketing expert right when he chides the nonprofit world for being “paralyzed by fear” when it comes to the use of social-media tools such as Twitter and Facebook? Twitter & Digg? Is there too much bureaucracy or too much fear to tell a compelling story in a transparent way? Or did he fail to do his homework?

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. Celebrate big donations or interesting blogs. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest. Keep people updated.

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