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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She asked the big question : Is all this making us smarter philanthropists (and organizers and leaders)? Photo by David Parmet (In the green room waiting to go on the stage, in between Pete Cashmore and Geoff Livingston) See more of David's conference photos here. Folks like Brian Reich are skeptical.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything. the desire people have to do something good without getting out of their chair". .

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10 Design Tips for Awesome Nonprofit Online Presentations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use the last slide to encourage questions, cement a final message, give people contact information for email and social media, or as a final call to action. That’s why most highway signs are dark green with white letters.) Have questions or need help with designing, editing, or writing your next presentation? 4) Last slide.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Some questions: How to set a realistic goal (total dollars = $ per retweet or hashtag) that helps the nonprofit actually implement the project or solve the need?

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MCON13 Live Blog: The Millennial Movement (Jose Antonio Vargas, Define American)

NTEN

They gave me five interviews, no holds barred, I asked him uncomfortable questions a journalist should ask a profile subject. On the walk he turned the tables and started asking me questions. Seems like a simple question. It wasn''t until that day that I found out the green card my grandparents had given me was fake.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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