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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

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2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Tom Dawkins is a serial social entrepreneur and the Australian member of the StartSomeGood team. Why Has Fundraising Online Shifted so Quickly? Over and over again.

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

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The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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

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Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. All of a sudden, this woman who lives 1,000 miles away is a volunteer for a company here in San Francisco." I was most recently at Digg. Massive number of people.

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