Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

I'd often walk into offices and see computers like those above on people's desks. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. is coming to a close, should nonprofits start to think about the cost of free and take a different approach?

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JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The campaign employed widgets and leveraged Care2, and CI’s page on MySpace, as well as blogs, to spread the word about their campaign. America’s Second Harvest won the “Online Fundraising Campaign” prize for their campaign in which people could select different food items (dairy, meat, etc.)

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JUL 12, 2007 How many site visitors do you have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

He has set up campaigns on seven different personal fundraising platforms: ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org Britt Bravo points us to " Socially Responsible Idol " a write up about the NetSquared Innovation Award nomination and voting process by Jessica Guynn on SFGate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. All of us engage our supporters in different ways. Go to the places on the social web where you can find people who are passionate about your cause. is about effective use and connect with other people. What is the first step?

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? The developers hope to revolutionize the way people give money, using the principles of group fundraising and social networking. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? " or "Fight Hate."

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? The developers hope to revolutionize the way people give money, using the principles of group fundraising and social networking. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? " or "Fight Hate."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Help Survivors of Slavery and Trafficking Rebuild Their Lives The Emancipation Network and MadeBySurvivors.com , where people can help survivors of human trafficking and slavery to rebuild their lives and to have sustainable income, education and hope. You're making a tangible, lasting difference for both people and nature.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

60) Search « The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition | Main | Make New Friends, But Keep the Old » Wednesday Jul 11 2007 A. The true power of the Connected Age is the ability of many people to participate in conversations. Allison Fine: They unleash enormous vitality and creativity that leads to all sorts of innovation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a corporate license, this means that it is for use by people within your organization. Others aren’t at all.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Communication grid so people can talk to each other eg. knowing what the network is for After her talk she showed different types of network diagrams. Meet people where they are, don’t make MySpace people come to Facebook or try to create groups that cross network platforms. Strong Social Ties a. wikipedia b.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

MySpace and Facebook display the number of friends you have. The actionable goal of the tool is to get users to check-in online when they visit various locations and to store related user and GPS data that help to showcase locations and connect people to them. Social networks have built on this system significantly.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. And their pages aren’t nearly as ugly as MySpace pages. All the data in these widgets come from different places and are assembled for my convenience. So widget makers have put things like video and photos on MySpace for a while. Widgets are big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0

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