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Be Memorable

One of The Agitator’s Aussie readers, Jane Coombs, sends this auto-reply message she received from Global Corporate Challenge. Thanks Jane! From: noreply [mailto:noreply@gettheworldmoving.com] Sent: Saturday, 27 August 2011 6:17 PM To: Coombs, Jane Subject: Automatic reply: GCC 2011 Milestone Thanks so much for your email. The only problem is that you’ve emailed noreply@gettheworldmoving.com which is […]

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Political Digital

Here’s a good rundown of how the political candidates are using online video and social media — ad targeting on Facebook, Pawlenty breakthrough video treatments, budget allocations, and more. Also some cause examples — from Hunger Action Month to volunteerism to gay marriage foes. ClickZ’ Politics & Advocacy is a good news feed if you […]

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Social Media Stats

To end your week, here’s a snappy video presentation of internet, web, social media stats. Add that to the latest online video usage numbers from Comscore … the average US internet user viewed 18.5 hours of online video in July. And, as usual, we ask … were any of those videos yours? Tom

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Peace Of Mind

A few weeks back, Seth Godin wrote a post called Selling the benefits of charity. To tell you the truth, I didn’t get it. His conclusion … The scalable unique selling proposition is that being part of the community is worth more than it costs. Huh?! I just re-read it, hoping I might be smarter […]

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Reactivating ‘Inactives’

It’s fascinating to watch how commercial marketers deal with the same problems nonprofit marketers face. Here’s a post from Email Insider dealing with what to do about inactive, or non-responding, email subscribers. The author makes four points: 1. No matter how your company defines inactives, the problem typically is huge. He says commercial marketers typically […]

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Niche Crowdfunding

The Wall Street Journal just published this piece on ‘niche crowdfunding’. Lots of web entrepreneurs are trying to ‘do good and do well’ by establishing microsites that connect donors directly with small projects seeking donor support. I have no problem with the do good/do well principle. And I like the direct, one-to-one connection sites like […]

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