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Fail Whale Fan Club, Social Media Blood Drive, and Happy Birthday Mike Chapman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What the heck is Twitter , and how can something that sounds so goofy possibly do anything useful???? Today, many people in Austin, Texas saw firsthand what Twitter can do with a few dedicated people and a great idea. And people poke fun at it. That's a novel way to celebrate a birthday and support a cause. But do they quite?

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

April 19, 2016: Producing a Successful Video Story from Sound to Screen with Aaron Bramley of Lights.Camera.Help. will feature TechSoup's own Glenn Fajardo and digital media trainer Nife Adeyemi, who will talk through postproduction editing, tools to use, adding sound and graphics, and sharing your video on social channels like YouTube.

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Lowering the ‘Giving Barrier’ for Millennials

Connection Cafe

Sound selfish and contradictory? It was easy to get started: I had just moved to Austin, and wanted to get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas, but wasn’t sure I had the time. But, our world of increased stimulation and increasingly instant gratification has taught us these behaviors. 20/month, that’s it.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

Aaron: Sounds great. Aaron: Yeah, sounds good, Brian. Additionally, you know, right now paint’s hard to find, or is becoming harder to find because last year there was an ice storm in Texas and Louisiana, and of which is where most of our paint is refined and made and, you know, shipped out to Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that? But then Duck Team 6 in Texas wrote an application and said, “$500 funds 5 spay surgeries.” We’re going to engage lots of community members.”

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

” Oh, yeah, going to be a fun one. We just love to know a little bit more about who we’re talking to, that’s always fun. Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. This is great,” so it’s fun to see that.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

At least wait an hour because we’ve got some good year-end tips for you from my good buddy, Rachel Muir, joining us from beautiful Austin, Texas. So this is all the fun that we’re going to be having today. Because I work really hard at it, and I have a lot of fun with my subject lines. Rachel, how’s it going?

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