Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. The $50,000 donation will contribute to a broader American Red Cross goal to raise $100 million for disaster relief. Tell us about your job?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your nonprofit wants to use the majority of the tools listed here effectively, then you need to hire a full-time social media manager. Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. WiserEarth is for environmentalists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

For the companies themselves, this relationship also presents their marketing departments with numerous opportunities to embrace cause marketing and corporate social responsibility. I was very glad to see that every company listed below is doing some good for nonprofits and social causes.What do you think? 2) Google/YouTube.

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JULY 26, 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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Kiva.org and the Social Capital markets II - other examples of ???second Meet the patrons - benefits and risks of social networking in fundraising. Projects Direct - Oxfam provides the opportunity for direct donations to communities. second wave philanthropy???

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. s the secret sauce?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

These are my links for January 14th through January 15th: Justgiving now accepts PayPal - "As of today, anyone visiting the Justgiving website can now use PayPal, to make a donation. New Marketing Summit 2008 - Events in San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, USA & Milan, Italy. Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! If your organization Tweets, will they donate? Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Social Media ROI Case Study Slam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Million Dollars to fight the horrible disease, according to the ALS Association web site. Just one week ago, donations totaled $22.6 In just seven days, donations have skyrocketed by an average of $9 million per day, now totaling $88.5 I chronicled some of these back in 2008. The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. Or even a social network strategy? 3 Seth Schneider 04.15.08 7 blogcoach 11.22.08

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JANUARY 5, 2011

According to Pew’s latest study, “they still clearly surpass their elders online when it comes to many communications and entertainment-related activities, such as using social network sites and playing games online.&# Social network site usage for this demographic has quadrupled since 2008, from 4% to 16%.

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MAY 3, 2011

Email remains the primary driver of online donations. This was true for Obama’s 2008 campaign for President, and remains true for most, if not all, nonprofits raising money online. Yes, you need a secure, functioning website where you can send people so they can donate money online.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

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!" However, a study by Convio provides some hope in the form of online donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The publisher of the New York newspaper the World , Pulitzer used all his influence to launch an aggressive fundraising campaign that bypassed the rich and instead solicited donations from average residents. In only six months, more than 120,000 donors – from children to recovering alcoholics – sent in donations of typically less than a $1.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

This Wednesday, April 15th, you can participate in a free online event and webinar from TechSoup, Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools. So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. billion in IT expenses as of September 2008.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

As part of the new YouTube for Nonprofits , Google has integrated Google Checkout donation processing for organizations in the program. What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. What do you think Holly?

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

As part of the new YouTube for Nonprofits , Google has integrated Google Checkout donation processing for organizations in the program. What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. What do you think Holly?

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JUNE 5, 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!" The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

A common critic of online giving through social media is that the dollar amounts are too low per donor and donations tend to be transactional, not relationship-based or one-time donors. Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Frogloop Blog. July 24, 2007.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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APRIL 19, 2016

This massive number of small online donations made a huge difference in the campaign. Whereas before campaign donations were synonymous with “writing a check” now the ability to donate and participate online was accessible to large numbers of people like never before. Lesson Two: Social Networking.

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DECEMBER 28, 2008

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!" Making sure that online donations are possible on your website is very important.

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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 With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. Tags: Nonprofit Events Social Networking.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

" I loved Marnie Webb 's thoughtful and personal take on why Twitter is different than other online social networks and why you should go for a dip, titled " A Skeptic's Guide to Twitter." " Convio released a report ranking the highest online-donating cities in 2008 and 2009 year-to-date.

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APRIL 16, 2008

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MAY 22, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

His online communities are the most tech-savvy of the independent diabetes communities : Hernandez built it on social networking platform Ning, the company at which he worked before starting these online communities and his nonprofit. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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MARCH 25, 2008

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I want to share some lessons this celebration of gratitude and giving and the program's approach that I think are relevant to organizing social nonprofit campaigns. Simplicity played a big role in the success of the first TweetsGiving in 2008. Online Fundraising Social Networking Web 2.0 Simplicity Rules.

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MAY 22, 2008

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2008

On March 19th, 2008, after spending 8 days in the hospital related to her multiple sclerosis, Cami Walker decided to give away one thing each day for 29 days : "I decided to do the 29-Day Giving Challenge as an experiment. Her goal is to inspire at least 2,000 people to commit to the 29-Day Giving Challenge by September 29, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

years, Peter has been working extremely hard to build Social Actions from scratch. The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. For the last 2.5 or $200.09.

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