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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey. Defining and Refining the Problem to Optimize Solving It with Tech.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. This year Stacey and her flock (I'm one of the honorary turkeys) will launch this year's Tweetsgiving , another 48-hour celebration. Plans for 2010 Twestival are already in the works.

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