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Refugee Action hosts Charioke Marathon in association with Lucky Voice

Published on 20 October 2009, by StuartW
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Charioke Marathon with Lucky Voice & Refugee Action

Refugee Action, in association with Lucky Voice, is planning to give the traditional charity marathon something of a Twist (& Shout).

Online fundraising videos now eligible for Gold Star Award

Published on 1 September 2009, by howardlake
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Global capacity-building charity the Resource Alliance is seeking entries for the Gold Star Award for Non-Profit Video Advertising 2009, which seeks to recognise the best fundraising video from across

List of social media sites' "for good" programmes for charities/nonprofits

Published on 26 June 2009, by howardlake
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I've just searched to see if there is a single list of social media sites that offer "for good" programmes for charities or nonprofits.

Social media users urged to donate their profile for Refugee Week

Published on 1 June 2009, by howardlake
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British Red Cross Change your online status

The British Red Cross is encouraging online social media users to donate their profile spaces and images to highlight the needs of refugees during Refugee Week (15-21 June 2009).

YouTube launches free in-video clickable ads for UK and US non-profit partners

Published on 29 March 2009, by bryanmiller
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Last week YouTube launched a new feature called ‘Call to Action’ for Non-profit Partners, allowing them to place overlay ads linking direct to their own website on their YouTube videos - for free. The clickable ads can direct viewers to any webpage, such as a secure donation page - essentially making YouTube videos into online DRTV ads.

To test the new feature, last Sunday YouTube placed a video for charity:water on its homepage, complete with a clickable overlay encouraging viewers to donate to fund water wells - and generated a very impressive $10,000 in donations in one day. So it certainly seems to work!...

Click here to read-on at Giving in a Digital World...

Why access to a billion presentations isn't helping me!

Published on 16 December 2008, by kevin baughen
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I'm now officially tired. My Nan used to tell me that I would get square eyes if I stared at the TV screen for too long. I can't imagine what she would think of our obsession with screens on everything today.

Diabetes Type 1 Video

Published on 3 November 2008, by JamesNorris
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Diabetes UK

Diabetes UK Type 1 Video - Press Release

Which charity will be first to make use of YouTube 'Annotations' interactivity?

Published on 5 June 2008, by bryanmiller
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Earlier this week YouTube released a new feature called 'Annotations' that allows you not only to annotate your uploaded video with captions, but also to create links within the video to other video clips or to your YouTube channel.

Easy captioning is a handy function, but it is the interactivity offered by the embedded links that makes this new feature particularly interesting.

Read on at Giving in a Digital World...

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