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Some Thoughts on Livestreamed Interviews, Engagement, Book Winners, and Finger Puppets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There were some terrific questions asked, and while I took a stab at the answers, hoping sharing the questions might inspire a few guest blog posts. Ustream provides a live streaming video window, an archive of the video, the ability for the audience to log into the chat room and ask questions and a social stream.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Some questions: How to set a realistic goal (total dollars = $ per retweet or hashtag) that helps the nonprofit actually implement the project or solve the need?

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels. And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit. How do we make sure? And that costs money.

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