Tips to Drown out the Twitter Noise | craigconnects

Tips to Drown out the Twitter Noise | craigconnects: Folks, this has become a big issue on Twitter – how do you get to the real good stuff on your Twitter feed? Where are the tweets from your community? And how do you make an effort to use Twitter most effectively for you and your organization? My team and I compiled a list of tips to drown out the Twitter noise so you can easily access the most useful content and conversations.

Hugh Evans | Fast Company | Business Innovation

Hugh Evans | Fast Company | Business Innovation: A decade later, in 2008--after volunteering in India with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for not-for-profits--Evans founded the Global Poverty Project (GPP), an insanely optimistic effort to help the world's needy. It's an innovative cocktail of entertainment, social media, and gamification, and has rallied millions of people worldwide, including celebrity supporters like Ben Affleck and Denmark's Crown Princess Mary, and an array of corporate backers such as Hewlett-Packard and FedEx.

U.K. cancer charity fundraiser teen Stephen Sutton dies - National | Globalnews.ca

U.K. cancer charity fundraiser teen Stephen Sutton dies - National | Globalnews.ca: TORONTO – A British teen who raised over $5.86 million (CDN) for charity and inspired people around the world has passed away, his family has announced.

At the age of 15, Stephen Sutton was diagnosed with bowel cancer and was told two years later by his doctors that his cancer was incurable.
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Association News | Association Doctor | Social Media: Riding the Current Wave of Technology | Association News: t could be said that social media has been the communications equivalent of a tsunami. Without warning, it has swept aside decades of ritual, convention and etiquette about how we communicate with each other. It has also demolished the association community’s comfort zone, leaving many struggling to grapple with new concepts about how to best engage with key stakeholders (and often each other).

5 Reasons Why Nonprofit Crowdfunding Campaigns Fail

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5 Reasons Why Nonprofit Crowdfunding Campaigns Fail: The majority of all crowdfunding campaigns fail to reach their monetary goals. Ouch!

Crowdfunding campaigns that hit their goals start with a comprehensive plan. While there are plenty of success stories in nonprofit crowdfunding, there are also many failures.