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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

Tech Soup

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. Players can choose specific charities to receive their Joy and track their contributions through pictures, videos and in-game messages.

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Interview with NetSquared project manager Mark Liu: Part 1

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

One strategy that emerged as a popular trend during the digital period was the “ask for forgiveness, not permission” approach. For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker. We thought that there would need to be new tactics for making impact and new calls to action. Digital Strategies.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. What is the trend?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Now what about painted a picture on a napkin in a restaurant? Has anyone ever seen giant puppets in the streets for a protest, or seen pictures of that? And something started to happen for me; I started to see a trend of women stepping up. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. Can I just see? laughter] OK.

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