The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations.  The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.  But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do.  There are different rules and new opportunities with online fundraising and every platform or application comes

As a way to hold on a bit longer to 2009, this month's Net2 Think Tank asked for your best blog post from the year.  We know you wrote about some really interesting things, shared great ideas and even captured conversations and presentations on your blog or website this year.  And we want to put those great posts back in the spotlight one more time before 2010!

Rediscover some of the best blog posts from this year!

It's already December and we are fast approaching 2010.  As a way to hold on a bit longer to 2009, this Net2 Think Tank asks for your best blog post from the year.  We know you wrote about some really interesting things, shared great ideas and even captured conversations and presentations on your blog or website this year.  And we don't want it to get tucked away under what's to come in 2010, at least not yet!

Share your best blog post from 2009 one more time!

November isn't over yet so there is still time to participate in NTEN's Member Appreciation Month activities and Epic Change's TweetsGiving campaign is this Tuesday-Thursday.  But, those aren't the only ways to say, "thanks."  At this time of year many organizations send messages of thanks to donors, supporters, volunteers, and their wider community.  In this month's

November is full of thanks with Epic Change's TweetsGiving campaign and NTEN's Member Appreciation Month, plus much more.  The end of the year holidays are also a very popular time for organizations to send messages of thanks to donors, supporters, volunteers, and their wider community.  But, what are the best tools to use to deliver these messages; what's the best way to say Thanks! online?

There are so many ways that people post content online, and that people talk about the issues you and your organization are focused on (or even your organization's work specifically)!  But, how do you stay on top of it all?  And how do you do it while still having time to do the rest of your job! That was the topic of this month's Net2 Think Tank - and this is the round-up of all the great contributions to answer that question:

How do you stay up-to-date online?

This month, we have some great contributions to share!

This month's Net2 Think Tank question asks, "How do you stay up-to-date online?"  There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you'll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely.  There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that's just blogs! Think of all the places your organization's name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations. 

To stay on top of it all, I suggest you create a listening dashboard for your organization - and here's how to do it!

When you consider all that there is to keep up with - blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the thousands of other social communities - there is seemingly not enough time in the day to keep up.  Here's how I keep up with it all and still run three separate businesses:

1.  Get a Google Reader account, and organize all the blog posts, news items and alerts in separate folders.  I have folder for the following things:

(a) "learning" - this is where I put the blog subscriptions of people I want to learn from but don't intend to build a relationship with.  

Info info everywhere. Blogs, press releases, online discussions, news stories... if you work for a nonprofit organization, you must stay on top of all this and more. But how?

I stay on top of my many favorite blogs, news sources, and people and organizational mentions in the news and online with the RSS reader provided in MyYahoo. I also have it configured to tell me when someone comments on one of my photos at Flickr.

Blog posts, news articles, videos, photos, and much, much more!  There are so many ways that people post content online, and that people talk about the issues you are interested in or even your organization!  But, how do you stay on top of it all?  And how do you do it while still having time to do the rest of your job!

How do you stay up-to-date online?

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How do you stay on top of all your favorite bloggers, news sources, and organizational mentions online?