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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Semphonic President and Conference Founder Gary Angel says " What a gift to have the best minds in the industry to work together and the big bonus is helping 2 chosen non-profit organizations."" This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. I'm not a marketing or fundraising professional.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Online Fundraising Predictions From Around the World. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Micro Fundraising and Trust. Harry's Fundraising Video.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. by asking its supporters to send pink panties to the Sri Ram Sena as Valentine’s Day gifts. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

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His thoughtful response: “I know a bunch of people have tried (and there has actually been some discussion within the NTEN blogs and community about it) to use LinkedIn as a fundraising platform. But I have seen groups use LinkedIn to form committees that do fundraising, to have people volunteer time from an in-kind standpoint, etc.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. " Marketing and Fundraising Charitable gift catalogs ignites blog buzz notes the Donor Power Blog, providing context and a roundup of blogosphere reaction. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Meetup Recap: Jen Burton from Causes on Fundraising and Online Communities

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At this month's packed Online Community Meetup (also referred to as #OCTribe), Jen Burton , director of Community and Support at Causes.com , spoke about Facebook's largest fundraising platform and its role in supporting nonprofits. It displays donors, fundraisers, the amount given, top recruiters, and much more.

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