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The FreedomfromOil Photo Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Check out how flickr is being used to promote a nonprofit cause. link] The JumpStart Ford ([link] is a campaign to convince the auto industry to improve fuel efficiency and eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2020. Part of the campaign includes a photo context in Flickr using the tag freedomfromoil. The deadline is August 17th.

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NTEN Member Update: Get back in the loop!

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Flickr: Dinner Series If summer vacation has you feeling a bit out of the loop, this week's Member Round Up is ripe with opportunities to re-connect with the community and, if you're feeling lucky, take a gamble with your great, innovative ideas. NTEN Member Knight Foundation announced their latest Knight News Challenge: mobile.

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Keeping an Eye on the Nonprofit Sector and other great finds via Netsquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are a visual/spatial type, check out their route on a Wayfaring map and their flickr stream. And speaking about using flickr to promote nonprofit causes ,Britt also points us to a new campaign to convince to the auto industry to improve fuel efficiency and eliminate greehouse gasses by 2020 called Jump Start Ford.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

industry benchmarks. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc. what things need to be measured.

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The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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During your time working in the nonprofit industry, what was one of your greatest accomplishments? I think the industry has moved significantly in the right direction, but it’s still difficult to get databases and software systems to talk to each other. We have more work to do in this area.

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The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

During your time working in the nonprofit industry, what was one of your greatest accomplishments? I think the industry has moved significantly in the right direction, but it’s still difficult to get databases and software systems to talk to each other. We have more work to do in this area.