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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) With that, profile pics were changed and a general sense of awareness for child abuse spread though Facebook – but for what?

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3 Tech Hints for Stronger Peer-to-Peer Campaigns

Achieve

Make sure your software is integrated to collect data these new supporters provide on campaign pages and when creating donor profiles. Common data issues include duplicate profiles, incorrect data entry, and trivial or unnecessary information. Peer-to-peer campaigns often attract new donors. Matching gifts. Offer technical support.

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the scenarios focused on how to use social networking/media for a campaign around childhood obesity. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. I should have thought more about using my laptop and the projector. Observations. Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed.

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22 Digital Donor Acquisition Ideas for Busy Fundraisers

Neon CRM

You can always build out their profiles later on. Including information on your site that will reassure donors about giving—like your Form 990, financial records, GuideStar and Charity Navigator profiles, etc.—will will make the digital donor acquisition process easier. Make sure you include an opportunity to donate here!

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

The timeline or newsfeed, in its quest to present ever growing amounts of information to us, becomes as fleeting as the stock ticker feed in Times Square, and belittles the personal importance of each post, by rendering it in the same small block, with the same small profile icon, in the same small font as everyone else. Photos matter.