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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 4, 2010
Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. Let me explain. Networked Nonprofits understand this.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. (Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ).
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month. Tags: contest crowdsourcing. Here's my analysis.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 28, 2009
The first steps are simple once you have policy/philosophy in place and the right mix of bottom up/top down adoption or acceptance of social media. Using social media as part of getting your job done is easier to imagine and put into practice if you're in the communications, marketing, outreach, or fundraising departments.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 4, 2012
These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. To get there, we employed a number of strategies, but chief among them was social media.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 27, 2011
Both campaigns leveraged the community and competition aspects of social media. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. Getting Over Celebrities.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 9, 2009
I had no idea what Twitter was or what it was for, but I had heard of it in the traditional media channels. I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that.
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