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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. My take away was from something that Marnie Webb said, "The new tools allow people to self-organize, something that nonprofits have been great at doing.

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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” There were slightly less crossed-legs and arms and more curiosity and questions like, “What are the best practices?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. Let's take a look.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. Private, personalized messages, not mass emails.

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Funny and Fun Fundraising with Crowdrise, a Big Vision Podcast Interview

Have Fun - Do Good

It was not born out of a marketing plan, it's just a reflection of what we wanted to be." - Robert Wolfe This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Robert Wolfe, the co-founder of Crowdrise , an online fundraising website that's all about, "raising money for charity and having the most fun in the world while doing it."

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Guest Post by Manny Hernandez: Transitioning From Social Media Cloud to Nonprofit Organization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last May, Mark Pescue published a provocative essay called the "Tower and the Clouds" which talked about the tension between working in traditional, hierarchical nonprofits and the "cloud" like behavior of working with social media. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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