Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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!" needs to have a large following and active presence on online social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Shel tells the story of the holiday season 2008, when the city of Toronto Transit Authority canceled its New Year's eve free-ride transportation due to budget pressures. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects. Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

While " Tweet and Meet " events, called "Tweet Ups," were popular with Twitter users in 2008, "Tweet-Meet-Donate" events became more and more common in 2009. Or maybe as more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away.

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