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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

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Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. 6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever – Guest Post by Joe Waters. “But Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000.

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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

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SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. She made her point by doing a quick poll of people in the audience. As Debbie says, it wasn’t about just using the tools and platforms like Facebook and Twitter – even for herself as the CEO or her organization.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

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Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. Walking Meetings and Video Platforms.

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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

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Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Thanks Geoff! ).

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Children's Museums and Web 2.0

Museum 2.0

Parents want cute pictures of their kids (and if you search "children's museum" on Flickr , you'll find over 20,000 images). Children's museums could carve out a niche, and provide a real service, by creating these kinds of web platforms, which encourage use of the real museum and support discovery and exploration based on museum experiences.