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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

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So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective.

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Fundraising Ideas

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Think battle of the bands, a concert, a DJ mashup, or a party that people will pay to attend or have a karaoke night where attendees not only pay to participate but can donate to see your staff sing! Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell.

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Can Twitter Save the Fail Whales? Err Save the World.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link]. Twitter Could Save Lives of Children - Missing children alerts. So, this is a Facebook group for people who use or want to use Twitter for good! Twitter for Health.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Children of the Lodz Ghetto research project , participants work together with staff to do database research into the lives of thousands of Polish children during the Holocaust. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules. to Change The World.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities).

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

EngageJoe.com blogs about his experiences spearheading and contributing to social change mashups and working with nonprofits on online strategy. Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth (CCFY) a network of community foundations in the United States dedicated to improved conditions for children, youth and families. Philanthropy.

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