Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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An Example of How To Pitch a Blogger: Global Giving UK and Philanthropy Predictions for 4th Quarter 2008

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As David notes, the pitch was personal just like their giving model. David also says that he was interested in the idea of person-to-person giving - and had written about it on his blog here where he talks about the book If the World Were a Village and how it brings global issues down to local level.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. August, 2008 Using Twitter and other channels, I raised $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Encouraging Generosity On Social Networks: Assessing America's Giving Challenge and Reflections from Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. There was also a session announcing the " All for Good ," an application that makes it easy for people to give back to their communities through volunteering.

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Vote for Sean Power for Web Analytics Association Board: Give Nonprofits A Voice

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the years, I've been able to rub elbows with metrics geeks, even to pretend to be one at the 2008 E-Metrics Summit in DC. The bulk of the web analytics practitioners come from large enterprises, but Sean is running for a seat on the board to give nonprofits a voice. Here's his platform from the site.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Help Social Actions Reach 9 Goals For 2009 by giving $20.09 to Social Actions

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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. I've been following Peter's work since October 2006, when I first discovered Peter's research on group giving when he introduced himself on Netsquared. or $200.09.

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