Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 3, 2009
The first Tweet-a-thon took place in September, 2008. During the four-day campaign, each Tweet will leverage a 10 cent donation – up to 50,000 Tweets – from NCM Fathom to the global humanitarian organization CARE. Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. has been raised.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 11, 2012
It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. It’s better to utilize a few tools very well than many tools poorly.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 14, 2008
Recently, thousands of Facebook members helped leveraged a $50,000 donation from the Western Union Foundation by voting for the American Red Cross and its disaster relief efforts. The $50,000 donation will contribute to a broader American Red Cross goal to raise $100 million for disaster relief. that are easy to grab and use.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). It was an echo campaign to complement a radio roadblock on Friday, September 19, 2008 when the NAB encouraged all radio stations to run a Red Cross PSA at 1 pm EDT. I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2007
We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.
Care2
APRIL 17, 2008
When asked what types of information they would prefer to receive through social media, "Donation/Information Requests" ranked last, preferred by only 22% of donors. April 16, 2008 | SocialButterfly Caitlin, Very, very interesting data. April 22, 2008 | Jennifer I wouldnt make too much of this. Thanks for sharing!
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