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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. For many project teams I’ve worked with, having an endorsement actually took them further than having a chunk of change.

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Join Our 24-Hour Round-the-World Twitter Chat

Tech Soup

Teams get overwhelmed by choice, opportunity, and discussion about which stories are the most important to tell. Topic: Storytelling and fundraising and marketing: Best practices, tips, tools, and hacks. SANTIAGO, CHILE. Chile Summer Time (1 p.m. Topic: Improving how NGOs use photography and video. AUSTRALIA.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

Connection Cafe

When I joined the Blackbaud Arts and Cultural Solutions team, I stumbled across social posts from the National Aquarium of New Zealand and have been following them ever since. Free eBook: Seven Tips to Increase Online Fundraising Success. These amusing, quirky and just plain fun posts immediately drew me in.