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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest.

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Nonprofits of the Month :: June 2010 :: Beyond Disasterous

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please follow, friend, subscribe and like: Twitter: International Bird Rescue Research Center. Flickr: SkyTruth. BP Logo Redesign Contest. Facebook: Mobile Baykeeper. YouTube: Environmental Defense Fund. MySpace: Greenpeace. Related Links: Nonprofits of the Month :: May 2010 :: Holding Corporations Accountable.

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Image by Codilicious from Flickr.

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September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

NTEN

flickr: ryancr Not to toot our own horn (although we love to do that around here) but do you know about our RoundTables? During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. For my field?

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Would You Get A Tattoo On Your Arm for A Good Cause?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. These smaller scale efforts represent some of the more creative fundraising campaigns undertaken on Twitter.

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Ask Britt: How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online?

Have Fun - Do Good

You may also want to start Twittering. Twitter is a social networking and microblogging tool where news travels fast. You can find other Twitterers who are interested in your book's topic on the TwitterPack wiki. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Flickr photo contest.

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