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Social Fundraising Is International: Make Sure Your Donation Tool Not Only Accepts Credit Cards, but PayPal Too

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. He isn't the first potential donor to tell me that.

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Just because you can translate a Facebook status update from English into Cantonese using a Google tool doesn’t mean that you should, nor is it an effective part of an international social media strategy. Probably not.

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Nonprofits Live: Gaming Recap

Tech Soup

Barry Joseph, Online Leadership Director at Global Kids. Dorado cites the online communities of Farmville, which raised funds for Japan tsunami relief, and FoldIt, which deciphered the structure of an AIDS-like virus. Joseph followed with some examples of how Global Kids creatively uses games to engage youth to learn and teach others.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Canva is a low-cost, do-it-yourself graphic design tool with pre-sized Facebook cover templates, but as digital marketing becomes more essential for nonprofits to succeed, hiring a graphic designer for your social media campaigns should be a line item in your annual budget. 3) Upload visual content that tells the story of your organization.

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief Find out how Second Harvest Japan used cloud-based technologies to serve Japanese communities when disaster struck. Reach for the Cloud with Microsoft Services.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet. Jen recently spoke at TechSoup’s Online Community Meetup.