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5 Social Media Stats That’ll Help Your Nonprofit Understand Audiences

TechImpact

While it is still important to market directly through Twitter, it might also be a good idea to run contests, or campaigns more focused around awareness than fundraising. Twitter for many is simply a way to stay involved in greater conversations that are happening online, engage those users with photo caption, trivia, or retweet contest.

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Seminar: Online Video for Policy Impact on Oct. 29

Forum One

It's titled "Online Video for Policy Impact." Su Patel of WITNESS, will tell you more about the WITNESS Hub a new advocacy platform for sharing and watching videos about human rights. Ames will offer advice on meeting the challenges of using a video sharing site within a government agency in support of public communication.

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New on SSIR: Tap the crowd with iStart

Amy Sample Ward

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone.

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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

Whether you’re introducing a change in ownership, new staff, policy change, technical update, or something else, community members sometimes resist change. " Direct Energy | Direct Energy Contest | Reduce Your Use for GoodReduce Your Use – "Nonprofits, you know it: small changes can make a big difference.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Contest: User Generated Crap, er… Content

See3

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. YouTube is full of folks who do a nice job with video.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Video Techniques

See3

I was thinking about this when I saw this video, Pancake Man. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Video from Tibet

See3

It is not easy getting video out and it certainly has to be dangerous even to shoot it. It is not easy getting video out and it certainly has to be dangerous even to shoot it. You can learn more about this video at The Hub , which is Witness’ site for human right video. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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