NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. Blackbaud studied 1,274 nonprofits to compare their online fundraising results for the first six months of 2008 to the same period of 2009. Not bad for all the doom and gloom being reported.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I've had time offline, with family, and just relaxing. I've been thinking a lot of those, mostly internal - personal improvement and professional goals for my work, blog, and professional learning. This past week has been about the lightest blogging week ever. how might you make a change in your community, neighborhood, or the world.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Read the entire report to learn more about global trends. Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Users can also download stories for offline reading. Updated: May 6, 2009. Released: November 16, 2009. I will elaborate at a later date, but briefly three very important best practices that I learned while researching for this blog post: 1) The App Description is important. App Name: Humane TV. Kiva :: Download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face. Learn their areas of interest and how engaged they are in your cause. Find out how one successful nonprofit leader does it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. This network of community foundations are actively experimenting and learning how to get better results on their Giving Days and adding to the knowledge in the Giving Day Playbook.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. Every time you host an event, convene a conversation, design a workshop, or anything else, invite those who weren’t on the email list, or at the last event, or part of your local community’s “social media club&# to come participate, contribute, and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment. recently moved its website development in-house; relying on external vendors increased costs and delays, and didn’t give the nonprofit enough opportunity to iterate and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As Sue tells it, “Inspired, I began to reach out to my personal network on Twitter and Facebook and offline through word of mouth. ” Says Sue, “Our hope is to develop a model that can be replicated in other communities.” The project freely shares its lessons learned with other groups that want to run similar drives.

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Hunger Project Free Flash 114

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

million raised by 2009 America’s Giving Challenge participants. And be sure to share invitations for the fundraiser and those that donate to his or her campaign to join your organization outside of facebook (on your enewsletter, your action alerts, an offline event, or something else to keep them on your list). What do you think?

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Causes Myspace Donation Application 166

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. 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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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow.

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Giving Minnesota Social Media Offline 104

Care2

JANUARY 7, 2011

Check out these Stats: In 2009, 31% of associations reported that membership renewal rates decreased in the previous year. Content (online and offline) and products aimed at your members. 67% learn about associations through emails and direct mail. In 2010, 44% of associations saw a decline in membership renewal rates.

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Benchmark Associations Stats Offline 67

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. In April 2009, the Washington Post published a critique of Facebook Causes on the basis that it wasn't an effective tool for raising money. and Canada. Conclusion.

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Facebook Money Raise Strategy 99

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. David Maister asks " What do consultants know?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results. While that’s all well and good, there’s nothing like seeing an organization put these tips into practice and learning from their example. Online revenue from 2009 to 2010 increased 148%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. Since the goal is for participants to learn and adopt these practices, they are given “recipes” to do the mapping and then share with colleagues.

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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. What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? Trust me.

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. Nigerian security forces have been accused of a series of abuses including extrajudicial killings, election violence and vote rigging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. The importance of carving out time for this type of learning. Or rather it is finding your social productivity sweet spot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

A webinar on lessons learned will be held in Q2 to share some of the key findings with NTEN members. Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1.

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Online Giving Convio Mobile 74

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I The difference with using social media for fundraising is that your organization may not even be involved anymore, the way it was offline. Learn more about the NCVO here. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year. I work in a small organisation and have heard a lot about web 2.0

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Social Media Interaction Government Case Study 105

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. Here is what he learned. Dutch native Marc van Bree is a public relations practitioner with more than 5 years of experience communicating—on and offline—in the nonprofit and cultural environment.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Last year, Convio clients raised more than $777 million online and 2009 looks to be even better. " Those points are common in the nonprofit sector despite the growing number of studies and reports that show that online fundraising continues to grow — even during the tough economy.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

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 about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Social Media Interaction Advocacy Online 44

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. Difference.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The bombings created confusion and as people were able to put details together for themselves, they did so in a way that others could learn and follow the developments. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. More and more, now we can.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. Better integration of online/offline sustainer management. Check out the Convio Customer Community or your Account Manager if you want to learn more. They never called or emailed to say, “Hey, Michelle! More data on which gifts are failing, and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Mutual learning through dialogue + thoughtful deliberation occur. Drinking from the Firehose? it can be done!

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Government Open Strategy Teen 60