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How to Avoid the Elephant Stampede (And Other Crisis Communications Tips)

Care2

As someone who currently works in Corporate Online Marketing at New Media Strategies, but has a history of working in politics and non-profits, I often see a big discrepancy how the private sector reacts to an online crisis versus the public sector. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts. Over and over again.

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Help Idealist.org so it will be there for us in the future

Connection Cafe

The site is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit founded in 1995 with a rich history of helping people share resources and information. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. I hope that they will be able to continue to enrich our community which is why I am writing about Idealist.org today.

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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". Developers will be able to include Flash applets, iFrame elements and Javascript snippets in their applications, and access most of the core MySpace resources (profile information, friend list, activity history, etc.).

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have my own history with Beth, last year she was trying to canvas money using Twitter to put a Cambodian girl through school. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. Here's the report.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PledgeBank lets you describe your ideas during the pledge creation process -- take advantage of that opportunity by including some history, some context, and your ideas for how to fix it. 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.

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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. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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