Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I use low tech tools first – paper, markers, sticky notes, and sticky dots. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. These are people or organizations that are strongly connected within a network.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. at 12:59 am @sudha My organization is getting ready to launch a Drupal site with deep Salesforce.com integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

It was organized by Ed Schipul. 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. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I For more: Messages, Stories, and Conversations: Creating a Strategy for your organization and your supporters. We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. This also tells us something about telling stories and increasing awareness of your issue or organization in general. The lessons for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Some wisdom from DC Nonprofits: JoesMovement : Joe’s Movement Emporium is the community performing arts center of World Arts Focus, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was launched in 1992. Designate a cheer leader.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

The New Year has officially begun, and it’s the perfect time to reflect on the year past, or for most people, look forward to see what resolutions and initiatives can be planned to make the new 2010 better than 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Photo by Dietrich I love the Red Cross's approach to scaling its engagement strategy by involving the whole organization - it is spelled out in their strategy handbook and policy guidelines. Using social media is an enhancement to your offline professional networking and relationship building. No downright sick in the stomach.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Word of mouth, etc. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. It is also important to bridge online conversations into mainstream media buzz and online engagement into offline action. People don’t build relationships with each other in a vacuum.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Word on the street is that acquiring new donors and then retaining them is getting more and more difficult and more and more expensive for nonprofit organizations. I signed up as a sustaining donor to an organization just a month before my card was due to expire. That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. Author: Michelle Shefter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

The only vertical experiencing a decline from 2010 to 2011 was International Affairs organizations. Despite the large drop for International Affairs organizations, since 2009 nonprofits in all verticals have seen double-digit growth with International Affairs organizations leading the way, realizing 75 percent growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? Although at core: People coming together in the real-world are key to fueling how we organize for change. We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing. Then check out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. 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. Evolution, Creation and Extinction (of the organization) Organizations, political campaigns, newspapers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one. She Jillian York’s critique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Organized crime, Mr. Carlin, says is selling our information and making some very serious money. Sharing, it should then be assumed, is necessary for building trust and real relationships, online or offline, and like in the real world, there are reasonable and unreasonable expectations for your information staying private.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. 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. You've heard the buzz around how nonprofit organizations and corporations are using social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Right before the holidays, eBay released 2009 figures for Giving Works , its fundraising program and marked a historic record for total funds raised for non-profits through ebay.com. The first is that online giving is growing fast, at a rate that’s 7 times faster than offline giving. We love to see new nonprofits join the program. (4)

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Many organizations realize the Internet presents a huge opportunity, but most have achieved limited success. If your organization, like many others, has yet to experience strong results raising funds online, the coming year provides an ideal window to experiment with new approaches. Myth #2: People won't give online.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Will social networking evolve? Think about it.

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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. A Platform for Self-Organizing. They key is designing the opportunity for connection, plus self-organizing.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits. The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report provides analysis of 28 major nonprofit organizations and transactions for over 15 million donors and more than $1 billion in revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. 3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." 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.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

To create a seamless experience across Bonfire and Classy the individuals who purchased an item on Bonfire show up in the activity feed on Classy, all of the money raised from shirt sales is sent directly to your organization, and the donor data collected on Bonfire is synced to your Classy account so you never have to worry about fragmented data.

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