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Cause Marketing: Using Pinterest to Tell the Story

Is Pinterest Having Problems Scaling to Meet Demand?

Pinterest has been seeing a lot of buzz lately, catching the attention of brands such as Etsy, Lands End and Real Simple and others. The service is a virtual pinboard: users can create boards around different themes or topics and then pin images to those boards. Other users can follow boards, comment on pinned images or re-pin them to their own boards. It’s highly addictive, fun and visually engaging.

Essentially, Pinterest is about visual content curation. It’s the perfect place to tell an engaging story and get people involved in that story. Which is why it’s a great platform for cause marketers. Read →

How DonorsChoose.org’s Facebook Integration Increased Donations by $100M – #RLTM NY Case Study [Best of the Backchannel]

DonorsChoose.org Giving Card

Part 11 of our summary of tweets from #RLTM NY 11 Realtime Conference attendees. These tweets summarize the Case Study titled “From User to Customer: How Good Design Creates Engagement” presented by Oliver Hurst-Hiller, CTO & EVP Product at DonorsChoose.org, who describes how DonorsChoose.org’s Facebook integration drove $100M in donations. Read →

WATCH: Adventure Girl Stefanie Michaels @ TWTRCON SF 10

Case Study: Social Media for Social Good.  From engagement to action: finding a cause that gets fans fired up.  Stefanie Michaels, aka Adventure Girl, and Operation Smile at TWTRCON SF 10 on November 18, 2010. Watch live video from TWTRCON on Justin.tv Read →

Donation by Action: The New Social Media Charity Model

Drew Olanoff was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in May of 2009. Instead of moping, he launched BlameDrewsCancer.com where on Twitter you could blame his cancer for whatever you like. The hook? By doing so, he promised that he would find a way to raise one dollar for each unique person who blamed his cancer for something. Read →

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