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Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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1) Document Yourself Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson , two filmmakers, emphasized the importance of documenting yourself. Nonprofits who work primarily with policy still should document themselves because they have access to experts on their topic. Be sure to check it out.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

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Document in action in as much detail as possible. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. Here's my AMORE step-by-step recipe: Set up a simple and small experiment , identify some outcomes and metrics. Watch it closely as it unfolds. Here's the report.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. communities as well. Look forward.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, given that most of the donations are really relatively small gifts, do donors expect, want, need tax documentation. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. Is that possible? What should I try doing next?

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An Interview of Heather Cronk, PledgeBank: Advice On Raising Money on Your Blog

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And the Bakul Foundation, the creators of the pledge, set up a blog to document their work that has great pictures of the library. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us. What are your secrets to success using PledgeBank?

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

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With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Move from huge disasters only to documenting daily disasters such as home fires. So we can begin to document not just big disasters but also small. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? Voters can then fill out a simple online form documenting their incident, and then this information is sent to a main database. We do care that your vote counts! November 6, 2006 | Kemble K.

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