Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2008

How much has been raised on Facebook? There isn't a comprehensive study that looks at total dollar amounts raised from all fundraising apps on Facebook. Wired Fundraiser report from Network for Good reports on the Long Tail of Facebook Causes from FrogLoop from July 2007 which shows less than impressive dollar amounts.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

Everyone's buzzing about the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge. Here's how: How to Join America's Giving Challenge (December 13, 2007-January 31, 2008) 1. Go to the America's Giving Challenge page in Parade Magazine. Want to help out your favorite cause? Click on "Get Started."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. But the idea of doing this through your online social networks has become normalized in the last few years as online social networks have become intertwined with our lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. She graduated from college and is married.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Back in 2007, I got a little obsessed with ladders of engagement – a way to describe the different stages that supports go through in deepening their involvement with your organization. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. How To Build A Ladder of Engagement by MixTape. Does your organization have a ladder of engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. June 20 – 22 is fast approaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Information. More >> Year. More >> Tony started with a short list of nptech bloggers and a very beta design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. July 24, 2007. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

There was a great discussion about social networking, particularly Facebook apps. A lot of the discussion echoed the points in our own Facebook Causes article. A special thanks goes out to todays speakers: Suzanne Rainey and Andrew Cohen from Forum One Communications and Hilary Zwerdling with M&R Strategic Services.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As many nonprofits and socially conscious organizations and businesses now know, the Obama for America campaign broke the mold this election season in almost every aspect: fundraising, outreach, grassroots efforts and particularly using the Internet and new media to do almost everything. Obama’s Facebook pages alone grow to 3.2

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org. All rights reserved.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

amysampleward : does growing a Facebook Fan page numbers count? rootwork : The Powershift youth climate change conf in 2007 was also largely organized via social media [link]. America’s Giving Challenge = push vs. Kiva peer-to-peer microfinance = pull. does growing an email list count? Specific goals help focus.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Salesforce Pardot was also acquired by ExactTarget in 2012 after its founding in 2007. A product like HubSpot has exceptional value as a social media tool, especially for Facebook Ads. Even with a Facebook integration, MailChimp does not include a social posting tool, and automation/workflow features strict limitations.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early. Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. It will come up in their feed either on Instagram, or Facebook, or even on LinkedIn, and then they will start to comment, or like, or share, or do some of that engagement. They got the little Volunteers of America logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. A year later, I competed in the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Contest, coming in first place. Leng graduated from college and is married.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. For this series, there was a guest post on the blog and a request for people to ask questions via Twitter, Facebook, or email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. Psychological underpinning: Fun. Metric: Click thrus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

They are not a single-issue organization, rather, they focus on multiple issues of concern to women from varying economic and ethnic backgrounds because they believe that to build a truly family-friendly America we need to address the overall pattern of how policies and business practices are developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing. Twitter found that out in 2007.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Finally do you vote for me contests are the best way to identify innovation solutions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , was one of the first large scale contests launching in 2007 and giving away $500,000 to spur citizen philanthropy and nonprofit adoption of social networking sites. There's still a lot of learning in how to design contest rules so they support a specific social outcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform.

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