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12 Ideas for a Virtual Fundraiser or Online Event

Get Fully Funded

The most popular items (and usually the best selling) are often a unique experience, such as being CEO for a day of a local company, recording a song in a professional-quality recording studio, going behind the scenes at an aquarium, or hosting a margarita party at home with a bartender. Or recruit a professional to host a virtual class.

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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” Our commitment is to provide access to books for those who are unable to read a traditional print format and to do so without harming the economic interests of authors and publishers.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting). Electro-Voice Microphone 635A. About $270 on Amazon.com.

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Raising Money from Online Activists - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Try first asking people to voice their support by signing an email petition. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The topic was hot and near and dear to my heart – converting online activists/subscribers into donors. And the house was packed. Implement the ladder of engagement in real time. Follow that with a fundraising ask.

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SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. and can result in de facto speech restrictions.

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

Tech Soup

And he is now a primary voice worldwide for the right-to-repair movement. Currently iFixit hosts more than 17,000 free repair manuals and has empowered over 15 million people to repair their broken stuff. iFixit also hosts a significant online repair community via its free answers forum where anyone can ask any repair question.

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