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The Secret to Going Viral: Harnessing the Kevin Bacon Effect

NetWits

Compelling: Never mind the what ; the key is sharing the so what with your audience. How can each of you take your cause viral, whether it’s an exciting announcement, a newly released YouTube video, or the nonprofit you represent? The answer is simple yet confounding: C+C+C = C.

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Great reads from January 6th through January 8th

Amy Sample Ward

It's often a hard thing to wrap our minds around because so much of social media doesn't provide straightforward numbers. On this site, you can write, edit & remix each other's words - along with those of the past years' presidents - to create an inaugural that reflects your collective viewpoint.

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The best remix of one of my Cambodian Photos by Arn Chorn Pond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Would you mind if we used your image "Monks in Roteang Village" for the website? We're building a website for students all over the world that profiles five different human rights awards winners. One of them is an amazing man named Arn Chorn Pond, who survived the Cambodian genocide. The site is currently in BETA form.

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C + C + C = C? The Secret to Viral Marketing

NTEN

Compelling: Never mind the what ; the key is sharing the so what with your audience. So how can you take your cause viral, whether it's your proposed session, a newly released YouTube video, or the nonprofit you represent? The answer is simple, yet confounding: C+C+C = C.

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A Month with the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

I also installed the Music Player (Remix). Tweaks and homebrew apps aren't for novice users, but if you're computer savvy and don't mind some work there's lots of great stuff out there. You also need to decide whether to use iPod-style folders, which some people seem to hate (I'm not using them).

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them. Some that come to mind include: Razoo March Madness which offered $10,000 in prizes for the organizations that got the most donors. I'm of two minds about online contests.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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