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The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "10 Ideas For A Macro View Of Your Microsite

Whether it is interactive educational games, unique online donation pages or critical campaigns, nonprofits have been looking more to microsites as supplements to their main Web pages. It doesn’t matter if your mission is animal rights or disaster relief, your microsite should distinguish itself while adhering to your overall online strategy."

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival: "The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. This world-wide fundraiser, with a $1 million fundraising goal, brought together the Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water."

Facebook faces furor over content rights - CNN.com

Facebook faces furor over content rights - CNN.com: "But for advocates of copyright reform and privacy, not to mention photographers and writers who may want the photos they upload or 'notes' they write on Facebook to eventually lead to some kind of profit, the news was alarming.

Some prominent Twitterers and bloggers, like New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, announced that they were deleting their Facebook accounts or pulling all uploaded content.

So Facebook issued somewhat of a clarification on Monday to explain what the change really meant.

'We are not claiming and have never claimed ownership of material that users upload,' a statement from Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt read. And indeed, Facebook's terms of service do say that 'User Content and Applications/Connect Sites' are exempt from its claims on content ownership."

Birmingham Post - Business - Business News - Creative industries - Birmingham 'Twitter-ers' raise £1,500 for charity

Birmingham Post - Business - Business News - Creative industries - Birmingham 'Twitter-ers' raise £1,500 for charity: "“Twitterers” from Birmingham’s business and social networking communities joined with cities around the world to host a charity event for members of the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, Twitter.

BrumTwestival, held at Poppyred in the Arcadian Centre, saw over 150 local Twitterers join members from 175 other cities in a night of fundraising."

Chicago Philanthropy Examiner: Why social media works for nonprofits

Chicago Philanthropy Examiner: Why social media works for nonprofits: "Thursday night, I, along with 100 plus people combined our virtual camaraderie to raise some real cash for charity. We attended Twestival, a fundraiser organized through the social networking site Twitter to benefit Charity: water. The organizers of Twestival originally set a goal of $500,000 but as interest spread, they increased the goal to $1 million in over 200 cities worldwide. Now, while the official tally is still being counted, one thing is certain: Social networking will change the way that nonprofits reach donor"

The NonProfit Times - Cell Telefundraising

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Advantage Consulting sends out a pre-call mail or email explaining to the donor that the company will call in the near future on behalf of a nonprofit. Alonso said the company started sending pre-call emails nearly six years ago and first used it for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

'My concern when we first did that was that people have an easy way to just click reply and say ÔDon't call me.' What we found was that the number of people who do that is so minimal - less than 1 percent - that it really didn't have an impact,' he said."

The NonProfit Times - Hot Nonprofit Web Sites Lighting up the Internet from main to micro — AN NPT SPECIAL FOCUS

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Hot Nonprofit Web Sites
Lighting up the Internet from main to micro — AN NPT SPECIAL FOCUS

By Craig Causer

The current economic crisis has served as a shameless promoter on par with the hair-raising efforts of boxing impresario Don King. Forget the 'Thrilla in Manila,' today's most recognized battle has been dubbed 'Wall St. versus Main St.'"