Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Then, try to think in even broader terms. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. Jeff Achen gives us the inside view. Good luck and Go Minnesota! Guest post by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

They are also offering some cool prizes and incentives, including these Climate Love Packs (Wow, that grand prize is a Schwinn 2010 World NX7 Commuter bike.) Here are the different ways that you can participate: Leave a voicemail thanking a senator for improving the world and letting everyone know how much you love the climate.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

By this time (12/11/2009 2:23 pm pst) he's raised over $135K. If those two criteria are met by the stated deadline, Trek Travel will donate one 2010 Paris Finishing Package to witness the finale of the Tour de France !!  135K and counting has been raised as of Friday December 11th, 2009 at 2:27 pm pst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. By Patricia Martin, 2010. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250. We ran the ad for the week of Give to the Max Day 2010 and in the end only spent $44.71 Check it out: Click for our full Give to the Max Day 2012 results.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. What will the social sector look like in 2010?

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AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

2009 The Year of Perpetual Online Contests : Case Foundation Blog. Would you prefer these contests simply go away in 2010 – if so, what might replace them?". According to the metrics on the blog, the post got almost 7500 views and 114 retweets. 12/21: The Chronicle of Philanthropy continues its round up coverage.

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APRIL 29, 2010

created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  .   And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare. I stumbled upon this engaging YouTube video that Steppenwolf.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Heck, it’s time to start thinking about 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2009. A key driver of donations was Facebook, where users uploaded 2.4 million challenge videos. Co-Disruptor: Twitter. Disruptor: GoFundMe. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People. Disruptor: Kickstarter.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Gautam was a TEDIndia Fellow in 2009, is part of efforts to set up a Wikimedia India Chapter and a Creative Commons supporter. He is passionate about education, equality and equity and focuses on ‘access’ as a way to achieve these.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In September 2009, we launched mycharitywater.org , a website where anyone could give up a birthday, or run any type of fundraising campaign, for clean water any time of the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events? More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009. Plans for 2010 Twestival are already in the works. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. .

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Ironically, this story broke right before I was going to hit the publish button on a guest post by Katherine Hutt who shared the details of their strategy for a small nonprofit, Generations of Hope, also competing for the $250,000 Pepsi prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009.

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