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#OceanLoveEarl: RIP Earl Kanter, MD – 12/23/21 – 6/23/13

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He was an early adopter of SKYPE. One of my most memorable Skype calls was when I had forgot to turn switch off SKYPE during a presentation to health care nonprofits about social media in 2007. Participants, who were in the 60s and 70s were protesting they were “too old,” when my Dad’s SKYPE profile showed up on the screen.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Citizen journalism.

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Steve Bridger

I think Comic Relief achieve this very well when they show the results of their big fundraising events. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. We did start a group hurricane blog after Wilma, thankfully we have not put it to good use.

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