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The Blue Sweater 500

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book. After reading it, I did a book giveaway on my blog asking readers to suggest ways they might apply the ideas in the book.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

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Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. We wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers, Leveraging the Power of Bots for Civil Society on SSIR Blog and The Robots Have Arrived: How Nonprofits Can Put Them To Work on Guidestar.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

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I realized that I only thought about this in the context of project - for example capturing video (plus text, photos, etc) from a conference.). The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. Cabrini Connections shared a video on YouTube.

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

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Using a handful of photos and video clips shot entirely on a mobile phone, ShelterBox created a video days after the landslides hit Peru and Colombia in an effort to drive donations in the wake of the devastation. The Jane Goodall video created with Animoto used 9 photos and 2 video clips. Don’t overthink it.