Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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JUNE 24, 2010

In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year. What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one? NonprofitMarketingGuide.com is the home base.

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 Just as in 2007-2008, the causes will compete to win cash awards totaling $170,000. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause. million for nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

On September 16, 2007 they will screen 24 hours of rolling footage at a rally in front of the UN headquarters and at smaller events at halls of power throughout the world - all connected through a real-time online broadcast. Use a webcam to record a video right in your web browser, or upload a video you've recorded offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Source: Facebook vs LinkedIn Traffic. The illustration above shows the overlap between people who use LinkedIn and Facebook. What initially caught my eye was the demographic (age analysis) of LinkedIn VS Facebook users. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. However, I’m still slightly disappointed I didn’t make the goal.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US. According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Brian Reich, publisher of Thinking About Media I have been critical of Facebook Causes, almost from the day it emerged onto the scene. Facebook Causes followed the same path. But its not just Facebook Causes. The Facebook Causes platform doesn’t change that. They are tied to celebrities or major events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There are offline ways to do it. Using Facebook and Linked but in the basic stages Gave an overview of some statistics of Internet usage/access of the world's population. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Questions from the audience: What skill sets do smaller nonprofits need to have?

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JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline. 25% of donors aged 65 and older give both online and offline. Also, a higher percentage of donors with annual incomes greater than $50,000 and beyond $100,000 give online than offline. Online donors don’t give offline Wrong.

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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. If you want to follow my trip, you can subscribe to my public updates on Facebook. I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

They are working to combine online and offline organizing. and they combine them in any variety of ways depending on the campaign: website, blogs, ties to external bloggers, online media sites, Facebook, Twitter, online ads. Running MomsRising is as much a science as it is an art. and see that as critical to their success.

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Bloomerang

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. And it is for both online and offline actions.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

drinkingliberally.com which is online and offline one-to-many. Meet people where they are, don’t make MySpace people come to Facebook or try to create groups that cross network platforms. 6 Aug 2007 Social Networking Bulletin – » Social Networks – The last post from Yearly Kos [.] 7 Aug 2007 lotusmedia 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." Sponsored Tweets or Hashtags is a form of click philanthropy and has been used by nonprofits on their web sites before it was common Facebook and Twitter. . Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

That all changed after the massive and devastating raids in New Bedford, MA in early 2007. The key to our success is integrating offline and online organizing relationships. We set up a facebook group, and started the outreach with our partner organizations. One without the other is never as effective.

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