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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

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The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!). Here''s what they said.

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Weekly Member Round Up: New and Old Technology for Good!

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Flickr: Iwan Indrawan Technological change moves quickly! The Educational Development Center is helping nearly 150,000 students in Sudan receive a better education, using a relatively old technology: the radio. But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This co-operation between museums and visitors bridges the gap between the professional language of the curator and the popular language of the museum visitor, and helps individuals see their personal meanings and perspectives in public collections. tools (like flickr Tag Fight. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

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Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. This is a flawed assumption. In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by DonkeyHotey. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Note from Beth: I ran into Jim Fruchterman at the Social Innovation Summit last week in Palo Alto.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5 Flickr photo credit: Milica Sekulic by CC Attribution 2.0

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