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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

to test out some ways to encourage more people to use social media tools and online fundraising to give online, they did not know what would emerge. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. When the Case Foundation team launched their Giving Challenge.

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Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" " Here are my lessons: 1. Don't Join New Social Networks Without Thinking. I can't be on every social network.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned in your career? Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

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1) Downer News Cycle: Last week, in an interview with NPR , I pointed to the long cycle of bad news we had experienced over the summer as one possible reason the Ice Bucket Challenge had so much appeal. I chronicled some of these back in 2008. John Haydon: 3 Big Fundraising Lessons from Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Interview with Jonathon Colman. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. The Cute Dog Theory.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.