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5 Content Marketing Success Stories Your Nonprofit Needs to Imitate

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My Dog ID lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition to find your dog match. The app prompts users to share their photo matches with friends on Twitter, Facebook and on the Best Friend’s User Generated Content Dog Wall. Make-a-Wish Foundation arrived on the scene in 1980 by helping one boy become a police officer.

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Beth's 51st Birthday Challenge: Can I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation for my birthday? (It's on Jan. 11th)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Thank You Adam and Mark for the early Birthday present!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo). Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot!

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? to support the Sharing Foundation. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest.

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10 Reasons For Bloggers To Get Involved With a Non-Profit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I set up a wiki that included lots of text and photos so they could remix as they wanted or not. For example, for Coolcat teacher blog, Vicky Davis, she wrote a post about the Sharing Foundation's computer school. I included a sign up sheet too. I also used to document links to their posts as we went along.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." Can our fans remix our logo or will legal get involved? Many organizations just beginning their social media strategy understand the value of listening as a first step.

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Designing A Space Suit for Mars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Thiago. Yesterday, I participated in an all-day working session on Network Effectiveness for Packard Foundation Grantees hosted by the Packard Foundation and the Monitor Institute. There is a tension with using social media to support your network. How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I

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