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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Well how many words is a video worth? While a static image can help your participant personalize their fundraising page, just think what a video could do. Help your event participants understand the power of a video appeal and even provide a script they can use to record their own!

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Nonprofits and Videoblogging: Janitors Own Words: Video from SEIU

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a few weeks, there will be a video blogging geekout session at NTC. I'm the session designer and I got a couple of rock stars from the video blogging community with us - Jay Dedman , Ryan Hodson , Jonny Goldstein , Andy Carvin , and Robyn Tippins to lead the session. How did you incorporate the use of video in your campaign?

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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. These are some links I wanted to share from June 16th. Find me on Delicious for more! Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit.

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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Google SearchWiki, it's the Diggification of Google!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. The YouTube Video describes the feature and the official blog post will tell you how it works. I was googling to find an article about social network policies, specifically friending policies.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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