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DataMasher a Winner at the White House Too

Forum One

We were also humbled by this laudatory blog post on whitehouse.gov by Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest.

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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

When you reach out, create a relationship with them, and highlight how they, as an individual, made a difference in the cause. 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!

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting).

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the course of several projects at the Lab, Rick Bonney and others noted that different kinds of participation led to different outcomes for participants. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Are the results different? t doing something different - same staff, same tasks - but you are doing it a bit differently. Will it make a difference?

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. Here’s an overview of the different types and some examples for each in philanthropy and doing. (1) Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom.

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