Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . My fundraising colleagues concur.

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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. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Engagement is the first step in building the relationship between your nonprofits’s supporters and the organization. Today’s nonprofit donors, volunteers, and fans are living a complex world, have busy lives and probably receive more messages and information than they can deal with. Facebook Ladder of Engagement.

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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

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. It seems like the nonprofit sector is having great success harnessing technology to rally communities and drive donations. But what about using it to make social change more scalable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places.

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There was a great discussion about social networking, particularly Facebook apps.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org.

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Connection Cafe

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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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

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

But the governor became a friend and then I took my skills to the nonprofit sector, and I’ve been executive director, development director, board member, you name it. And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. 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 united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. 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. If you want to follow my trip, you can subscribe to my public updates on Facebook.

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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. and Osberg, Sally R.,

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APRIL 21, 2014

This is our earth month edition of nonprofit technology news. The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. It turns out that Facebook did not buy Titan Aerospace, Google did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work. The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. Level Playing Fields?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

More recently, they've been used by the nonprofit and philanthropic sector to encourage nonprofits to adopt social media tools to leverage fund raising. We've seen corporate giving programs, like Target, run variations on these contests and spurring much discussion amongst nonprofits (and their supporters) about cause-fatigue.

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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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