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MAY 8, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Use an array of social media channels -- including Twitter , Facebook and crowd-sourcing to turn our small group of tech savvy supporters into a powerful fundraising force. Tags: Crowdsourcing Online Fundraising Social Networking. The answer was clear. What We Did.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

While many nonprofits have a social media presence these days, senior leadership is still struggling to figure out how to best integrate it into their communications plans. What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook? ” How much time should you spend on social media if you have limited resources?”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists?

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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. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. It may be mean rethinking multi-channel campaigns, particularly use of direct mail as Allyson Kapin writes on the Frog Loop blog.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Email is a critical channel. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. What is your real output?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month. The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. We sent e-mails to our personal contacts and the GOH database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

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 more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Turning Facebook Followers Into Change Agents 100,000 followers, and you still want more.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Can anyone help me.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Can anyone help me.

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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. Bridging Silos. Bridging Silos.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

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MAY 29, 2009

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MAY 4, 2009

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center.

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See3

JANUARY 29, 2009

I can’t keep up with Facebook. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail and blogs and Web sites and Facebook and chat and text messages, who on earth has the bandwidth to keep interrupting the day to visit a Web site and type in, “I’m now having lunch”?

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Care2

DECEMBER 20, 2009

In 2009 their campaigns made me laugh or helped me channel my frustration over injustices into action. Here’s my list of the best websites and online campaigns from 2009. Charity:Water In 2009 Charity:Wate r became the super star of the nonprofit world for using social media to brand themselves and raise money online.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. This is also where the connection to your Facebook account comes into play.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The median online gift above $1,000 was $3,500 in 2009. 33% of online donors will switch channels to become offline donors. Social media doesn’t raise money online Wrong. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been successful raising money for Friends Asking Friends events.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. In a social environment and it is mysterious why one thing works or does not. There is no secret sauce.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

The other side of Social CRM is what is changing inside organizations; how communication between organizational staff is getting more social. Employees at your organization are using IM, Skype, social networks, and collaborative file and note sharing tools to communicate and exchange information and do their jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit. It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told. And it is generated partly by social cues.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012. Post your blog on Facebook. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. You're invited to submit your stories about how social media was used for good causes. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine , titled " The Networked Nonprofit " and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. Social Media Fundraising As Part of A Multi-Channel Strategy. A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/witness. In February 2006, WITNESS first social media tool was the launch of its YouTube Channel. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog).

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

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!" The Twitter community likes to be engaged.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Email: Email is a critical channel, not talked about enough! The tools and points she covered included: Social Networks. Facebook being the major player here with general growth at this point including: > 200 million active users. Natalie’s ending tip for social networks? Some website tools: 1.

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