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Menu for Hope: Holiday Gift Giving

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Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs. Even better, according to a comment, they've raised $5,600 so far. I'm going over to donate -- entry level donation is $5.

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Make Sarah Bunting Wear A Tomato Outfit, Parade Around Rockefeller Center and Support DonorsChoose!

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I'm curious why Tomato Nation that has a technorati rank of 18,779 compared with AVC's (Fred Wilson) rank of 865 and Tech Crunch's rank of 4 has managed to raise so much more money? Does it illustrate the problems of using the Technorati rank as any serious benchmark? Is this a measure of engaged readers?

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Better than A Video Ipod for the Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year for the holidays, our "gift" to ourselves (over the next four years) is to sponsor Leng Soparoth for college in Cambodia through the Sharing Foundation. Technorati Tags: cambodia , net2 , nptech She is an orphan from Kampong Speu and lived in the same orphanage as our daughter, Sara.

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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t have naughty gifts on your Facebook profile if your ???friends??? s popularity rating on blog search engines like Technorati. What kind of polices are there? How do organizations create policies? Perhaps some additional questions for social networking personas: Why you really shouldn???t Is anonymous ever REALLY anonymous?

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Tags: nptagadvocates I_Like_To_Watch " Here's my interview with her: I am curious as to whether or not you work for a nonprofit organization? I would love it if my i_like_to_watch tag was adopted widely so that the collaborative filtering aspect of tags could help me separate wheat from chaff.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

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Britt Bravo also brought an excellent question campaign tracking of widgets (to thank donors) and whether or not their gifts are tax-deductible. And, given that most of the donations are really relatively small gifts, do donors expect, want, need tax documentation. Is that possible? re doing and ask ???em

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). When people share their opinions publicly, they give institutions a gift—an opportunity to listen in. I was going to write to my community.

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