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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. I caught up with Rob Wu, co-founder of CauseVox , the platform used to support this fundraising effort, to learn more about the process and campaign. In the end, it raised over $120,000 from 1500+ donors.

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Twitter Stats You Need To Know and Tips to Get More Clicks

Care2

Twitter can be a great platform to engage with people though, if campaigners take the time to have back and forth discussions and not just use Twitter to promote blog posts, press releases or fact sheets. 33,000 : tweets per second in Japan during New Years. 80 percent : users on mobile in the UK and Japan.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Connecting with fans and followers – or customers – around the world on a handful of social networking platforms isn’t the same as engaging with them and being part of their online world. Use the right platform. How about Facebook friends in India? Probably not.

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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

When people call in, your customer service rep has to answer the phone and deal with the person's question. One of the scenarios where it's especially important to be able to handle unusually high amounts of traffic is after a disaster, which is why Second Harvest Japan decided to host its Emergency Response Portal in the cloud.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you’ve fundraised online before, ask yourself a few questions to get a baseline of what is achievable. After you think through these questions, create a well defined goal that follows the SMART framework : specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. How much have we raised online in the past year? Fundraising'

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts. 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.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Some of the game-making platforms he recommends are E-line Media’s own Gamestar Mechanic , along with Game Salad , Gamemaker and Unity , depending on your needs. Here’s a chart mapping the various game design platforms with recommended age range and beginning to advanced game design skill level: How else can we engage learners?

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