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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. possibly related classroom projects??? More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Check out scrapblog which lets you create a colleage of your photos online similar to a scrapbook page. New (to me) Blogs.

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Fun and Public Humiliation As A Social Fundraising Strategy: A Brief History

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2006, Sarah Bunting, who writes the blog Tomato Nation , a culture and humor blog, offered to shave her head if her blog readers donated to DonorsChoose.org , a site that allows donors to purchase school supplies for needy classrooms. I don't mean some wear-a-red-outfit-with-a-green-hat, only-go-outside-to-buy-milk bullshit either.

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