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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The green represents people talking about. In the example above, I discovered a turkey in the canyon. Or should I post automatically even though it is likely to not get noticed as much as hand posting? So, this was practical information, visual, geeky, and fun. Look for the Patterns. Analyze the Comments.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

For instance, a Thanksgiving meal basket could include a coupon for a free turkey, a bottle of wine, charcuterie ingredients, and fancy dinner napkins. Auction basket and package ideas Auction baskets or packages are intriguing because they allow bidders to win more than one prize at once.

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Confessions from a Donor: I Didn’t Donate for 10 Years, but Now I’m a Sustainer.

Connection Cafe

Even though I get my news every morning from the great Morning Editions hosts, Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne and David Greene and spend my days listening to This American Life, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and TED Radio hour, it’s never really crossed my mind to donate. “ You listen to NPR because you don’t like commercials.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. This year Stacey and her flock (I'm one of the honorary turkeys) will launch this year's Tweetsgiving , another 48-hour celebration. How to best incorporate human emotion in the Twitter?

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