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I’ve always loved the children’s book Miss Rumphius.
It’s about a woman who resolves as a girl to travel all over the world, to then live by the sea when she was done, and finally, to make the world a more beautiful place.
After she has achieved the first two goals, she becomes very sick and has [...]
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I’ve got very little time to spare these days and for the next little while, as we are fast approaching the date of my organization’s major event on Sunday, August 3, at the same time as we are getting ready to launch our new website (about to launch in beta in about ten days – [...]
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The new multi-disciplinary blog aggregrator from Guy Kawasaki, Alltop.com, officially went live today. As noted here last week, the Nonprofit Alltop page looks to be a good at-a-glance resource for all the latest blog posts in the nonprofit world (primarily those in the United States, from the look of it, for now at least).
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that donations to walkathons and other athletic fund-raising events rose 12% in 2007, according to a recent survey.
Despite a bumpy economy, all of the organizers in the survey predicted that their events will raise more money this year than they did in 2007. Projected increases for 2008 averaged 12 percent.
While [...]
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Brian Oberkirk’s recently posted advice to brands considering launching their own social networks (in short: don’t) has made the rounds in the nonprofit technology blogosphere, mostly thanks to the incredibly useful nptech tag (add this to your RSS feed now if you want to follow other practitioners and thinkers in this field).
It’s another volley in [...]
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I was glad to see that the New York Times picked up on the final stages of the America’s Giving Challenge. The contest is over, and the cause I’ve been flogging/blogging appears to have (unofficially) emerged victorious. It’s pretty exciting, no doubt, that the Sharing Foundation is likely to receive a decent sum [...]
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Tim Davies wrote this post about the ROI of social media versus the ROI of printed materials, which Beth Kanter pointed to here. It’s an interesting poke into the idea of establishing the ROI of social media, and asks what is the return on printed pamphlets or brochures?
Of course, many brochures, leaflets, postcards, etc, go [...]
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So I met Beth Kanter and her delightful family for dinner tonight in Falmouth! We were going to meet at a Cambodian restaurant that I had never been to before, but alas, I have still never been to it, because it was shuttered for the Dead Season (January-February-March, when all Cape Cod restaurateurs go [...]
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Let’s help the Sharing Foundation win the grand prize of $50,000 in ten days when this contest is over!
Here’s the scoop:
The Sharing Foundation helps Cambodian orphans in a multitude of fantastic ways.
The America’s Giving Challenge will give $50,000 to the four top fundraisers in January. That leaves ten days.
Michele Martin has set up the [...]
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say it loud
by BethDunn on February 29, 2008
We can’t promise you good things will happen when you put yourself out there. But we can guarantee that nothing will happen if you do nothing.”
-Oren Sherman, Artist and Marketing Consultant
Beth Kanter asks:
What is your feeling about the value of comments to blogging?”
I responded in her comments, and felt moved to [...]
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