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Sparked, Micro-Volunteering Network, Has Volunteers Standing By For Your Nonprofit’s Next Small Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. All the job requests from nonprofits are getting down and micro volunteers are standing by to help your organization. They say, “a penny saved is a penny earned”.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

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GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Allison Fine points out some outrageous behavior by the Gates Foundation and asks "What does it take for the foundation and nonprofit community to finally take a stand on appalling behavior like this?"

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The post initially caught my eye because there was a quote from Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, co-authors of The Dragonfly Effect (I’m giving away a copy ). I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks. And a quick take from Aaron Lester from the Nonprofit Quarterly rounds it out.

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