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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. Long term, DonorsChoose wants raise $100 million a year for public classrooms this way.

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Make Sarah Bunting Wear A Tomato Outfit, Parade Around Rockefeller Center and Support DonorsChoose!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her readers responded, raising approximately $30,000 in a few days. Bunting has raised $75,000! As of this evening, her campaign had raised over $80,000. She's also well ahead of TechCrunch which has raised slightly over $5,000. Does it illustrate the problems of using the Technorati rank as any serious benchmark?

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. The campaign.

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The 501c3 Blogosphere

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lisa is curious and raises some excellent questions: Go Bob for blazing a trail! Technorati Tag: nptech " I found this entry " Nonprofit Successfully Using Blogs " The post describes the American Lung Association of Minnesota's new blog written by staff member Bob Moffitt. What did you lay out as the benefits/risks?

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Katya Andresen's post titled " Dying Man Throws Himself From Plane to Raise Money " is attention grabbing way to say, "I would like to see more sessions at fundraising conferences on 'how to ask donors to ask for money." Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Search Widget: If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. With that said, I get complaints from some of my blog readers about the Technorati Search Widget, so I'm looking for suggestions.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.