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Free E-Book: NetworkforGood Giving Day Planning Guide

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It’s got to be fun – games and activities can make a big difference. Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site.

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What about Pscyho Socialgraphics?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, most importantly, designed for people to have fun doing it. (I'm For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. I also created some fun group exercises for folks to learn the concepts.

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Reflections on the Social Media Lab Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the gift of time. Many people have also remixed it. I also remixed the game recently to incorporate some of the latest tools such as mobile and location-based social networks. I learned about the four keys of fun in game design as well as the role emotion plays in engaging people. I did floating consults.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. Goldstein's Fundraising Success Podcast Britt Bravo, Have Fun, Do Good Blog, is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts.

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Friendship, 5-Minutes, Appreciation, Action, Integration, Things: More Reverb 10

Have Fun - Do Good

It is a gift to be able to take a brisk, vigorous walk. The kind comments and emails I've received this year from Have Fun, Do Good readers. So many people have limitations and are not able to take a walk, so go for it!" Meeting amazing people while doing interviews for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. Peer-to-Peer fundraising is about empowering people to fundraise on behalf of your nonprofit.