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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Those dollars add up. Rosé All Day Season. Nothing pairs well with summer quite like rosé.

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Learn to Use Adobe Software

Tech Soup

Roadmap for Creating Successful Flash Video where Colin Carpenter and Lori Pottinger of International Rivers talk about using Adobe digital video tools to tell stories and get messages across. Evergreen and International Rivers were runners-up in the 2008 Show Your Impact contest.

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Is the New Facebook “People Talking About” Metric As Meaningless as Number of Likes?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve never run an ad for more fans, or done silly contests or anything else, you know? The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. Size has never mattered to us.

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Vote for DataMasher in Apps for America 2

Forum One

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive, "heat," Flash-based map of the United States. Cool right? We thought so.

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Using Super-Short Videos to Reach New Audiences

Tech Soup

Vine does offer a few features beyond Instagram, including the ability to snip or shorten your Vine, a grid and a level for accurately lining up shots, and a flash to allow you to shoot in low-light settings. This webinar is part of a series of events supporting our Storymakers 2014 Contest , which is happening now through September 26, 2014.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How about Flash Back Friday ? It does have a Star Wars theme, but he created a fun caption contest. Here are some tips for games and giveaway contests on Facebook. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday? Make up your own nostalgia meme. Engage Alumni in Professional Conversations Related To Their Careers.

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Microsoft OneNote Gives Dyslexic Kids a New Learning Experience

Tech Soup

The copies are submitted on a USB flash drive or directly." This story was a winner in TechSoup's global case studies contest highlighting the very best impact stories from TechSoup's network of 63 partners serving 121 countries. " Improving the Education Experience. Video: Microsoft Ideas.