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Interview: User Generated Content for a PSA Campaign from the Red Cross

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I asked Wendy Harman, Director of Social Strategy, who connected me with her colleagues Anne Marie Borrego, Director of Media Relations, and Chris Andrews, Senior Advertising Associate to answer a few questions. (1) We sent them each kits with journals and cameras and asked them to share their stories.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

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Your mailed welcome kit could contain: A holiday-themed letter from the Executive Director, signed and with a short, handwritten personal note, such as: We thank you for choosing to give to our organization! It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. Happy holidays to you and your loved ones! . Just say thank you.

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18 Ways of Thanking Volunteers So They’ll Feel Appreciated and Stick Around Forever

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For some volunteers, a personal “thank you” from the Executive Director is all they need. A simple script might sound like this: “ Hey, I heard from our Executive Director that our program would not be successful were it not for you, and I wanted to say thank you.” Maybe they’re overwhelmed with the tasks of growing a nonprofit.

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It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. It is certainly better and more secure than IE. Be Helpful.

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Thank you again for your help. Be Helpful.

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