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		<title>Upcoming Social Media Webinars &#8211; 6/6/2011 thru 6/10/2011</title>
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		<title>Upcoming Social Media Webinars &#8211; 5/2/2011 thru 5/6/2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Whitney McKim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, 5/2/2011 Google Analytics Training ($690.00, 2-day training May 2 &#38; May 3) MailChimp 101 Webinar (FREE) MailChimp 103 Webinar (FREE) Tuesday, 5/3/2011 Online Fundraising Fundamentals &#8211; Tools and Strategies for Success ($69.99) The Social Media Decision Maker&#8217;s Toolkit ($225.00, 5 week webinar series) Social Media &#38; Financial Services Do Add Up ($150 for PRSA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Extraordinary and Help GoodDogz.org With Your iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in July, I wrote a post about the new mobile volunteering iPhone app &#8220;The Extraordinaries&#8221;. In the post, I mentioned that GoodDogz.org had signed up to be part of the pilot program and we were awaiting word of our acceptance. Well, I&#8217;m super excited to announce that we were accepted as part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Extraordinarie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, NPR did an expose on a new iPhone app called The Extraordinaries, which I think could be a kick in the pants to volunteerism if executed correctly. Called &#8220;micro-volunteering&#8221;, The Extraordinaries enables folks who want to lend 10 minutes of their time (i.e. while waiting for a bus) to donate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Things Light During Tough Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We held our GoodDogz.org annual meeting on Saturday and the theme for 2009 is having fun. As some of you may know, having more fun and living life is one of my personal New Year&#8217;s resolutions and I&#8217;m hoping that I can apply it to everything that I do. We expect to have our work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When to Say Thanks&#8230;Um&#8230;Always</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economy in a complete mess and donors tightening the purse strings, I think that its more important than ever to say thanks. I am a habitual thanker and I really mean it every time. At restaurants, I thank the waiter for every single thing he does for me. I can&#8217;t help it &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Appreciation &#8211; How Do You Show It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running an all volunteer organization is not easy. It&#8217;s hard to get people motivated and more importantly, sustain that motivation. I&#8217;ve found that group&#8217;s seem to retain a handful of core volunteers, but for everyone else its a revolving door. How do you retain your volunteers? What sort of reward system do you have in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life and Nonprofits &#8211; My Take</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I (or perhaps Cordelia Gothly) was asked today to complete a profile for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and it forced me to sit down and write out some of the things that tend to sit in my melon until someone forces it out (thanks Megan!) What I wrote seemed helpful, so I&#8217;ve decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VolunteerMatch.com &#8211; Get More Volunteers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VolunteerMatch.com is not a social media tool, but it&#8217;s a great tool and it&#8217;s a solid starting point. VolunteerMatch.com is a free tool that enables non-profits to seek out and recruit quality volunteers. It&#8217;s free for most features and is very easy to use. A free account gives you a myriad of tools including&#8230; An [...]]]></description>
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