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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. Ultimately, my writing skills led me into professional pursuits where I actually get paid for feeding my addiction. Tell me about you. I'm a wordaholic.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. Today, her 10,000 Girls program is helping girls succeed in school and learn business skills." ** Related blog posts • Vote for Ethiopia Reads' Yohannes Gebregeorgis as CNN's hero of the year from The Latest Word. Her nonprofit St.

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). I thought her comments would be worth posting. Any IT setup has to be distributed as we saw so many single point data sources taken out by Hurricane Katrina, with no alternate location for getting same data stream.

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How Experimentation and Measurement Can Help Win A Little Bet with Facebook Promoted Posts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” designed to help grantees institutionalize social media and networked nonprofit skills and strategies and integrate them into their broader strategy for communications on children’s health. ” In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, nonprofits were asking, “ Why is Facebook asking us to pay to reach volunteers?

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