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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

by Justin Levy on July 14, 2009

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs.

Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]

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A Couple More Lattes Please

by Justin Levy on May 10, 2009

A little over a week ago I convinced Chris Brogan to shave his head for charity.  We decided that we wanted to donate laptops to kids (not OLPC because Chris donated to them last year).  To date we have raised $6,400 from nearly 150 contributors (thank you!).  But, we’re still under our goal of $10,000 [...]

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Brogan Goes Bald for Charity

by Justin Levy on April 25, 2009

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You can follow some of the fun from Twitter using the hashtag #baldbrogan and check out what Chris Brogan had to say over about shaving his head for charity here.
Video of the head shaving and photos to follow soon…

Current Corporate Sponsors
Citrix Online (also a client)
Radian6 (also a conference sponsor)
AMD
Crocs (donating 200+ pairs of shoes)
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Donating to Charity in Exchange for Email Subscribers

by Justin Levy on January 5, 2009

Yesterday I was contacted by Lee Dryburgh, organizer of the eComms Conference.  eComms is a conference about emerging communications focusing on the telecom industry.  Lee told me that he was running a social media experiment of donating $0.50 to Shelter Network, a Bay Area-based charitable organization, for every email subscriber he received for the eComms mailing [...]

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