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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.   David is based on Austin — wanted to share with you a post about crowdfunding to celebrate Austin Giving Day #AmplifyAtx that raised over $2 million earlier this week.

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Interview: User Generated Content for a PSA Campaign from the Red Cross

Note from Beth: The American Red Cross  launched a user generated ad campaign featuring unscripted stories created and filmed by real people helped by the organization. The first ads are part of the organization’s holiday giving campaign and feature people impacted by home fires and flooding.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Note from Beth: Over five years ago, I connected with Sam Mayfield, an independent media maker,  through my blog.  In 2008,  she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana.  … Read More

Pulitzer and the Pedestal – Or Why Crowdfunding Needs Influencer Marketing

Guest post by Jesse Noyes

The outlook for the Statue of Liberty was bleak in 1885.

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt.… Read More

Can Social Media Save Lives? Guest Post by Porter Gale

 

Note from Beth: I’m publishing this post from 30,000 feet in the air flying my favorite airline, Virgin America, enroute to Washington, DC for Give the Max Day.   (If you’ve been reading this blog for a long time, you’ll know that this isn’t my first inflight blog post).    

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