Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Trust me.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

I get their emails — like I do with many other organizations — so I can see what they’re up to and learn from a variety of techniques about best practices in online advocacy and fundraising. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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JANUARY 23, 2008

They have used the web to fundraise for these spots. The page is their standard fundraising page (the kind you get with services such as Convio or Kintera). Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! They are no strangers to using video either.

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MARCH 12, 2008

They just added the functionality to allow users to embed YouTube videos on those pages — another step in the general recognition that video is effective for fundraising. Mark Sutton, Chief Executive Officer of Firstgiving stated, “Experience shows us that the more personal the appeal, the more successful the fundraiser.

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MARCH 23, 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!" May 19, 2010 | Brenda Johnson Copyright © 2008, Care2.com It will be a great aid!

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AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation. And that is for a different post.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

“As I’ve written before, I think it is crucial for nonprofits to master this medium for conducting your fundraising, advocacy and educational efforts,&# Tom writes. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! minutes. * Join the Video Bandwagon [.]

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

11 Feb 2008 See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Obama – Online Fundraising Case Study [.] We care about this because we care about using the internet for fundraising and advocacy. The internet, only the internet, makes possible this kind of retail fundraising. Keep trying more – thanks!

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Share and Enjoy: 2 Comments comment Russ Burke Hello Michael: Great website and critically important job you are doing to educate nonprofits…the newer fundraisers anxious to get into the eConnecting need the perspective and us older folks need to understand more so we can integrate it’s potential with what we already know works.

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MAY 29, 2009

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Where and how should we focus our energies to get the most ROI from our video production resources? Nonprofits need to make the best use of video by strategically incorporating various styles into your outreach, advocacy, and fundraising campaigns. Now that we have all this footage, what do we do with it?

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MARCH 27, 2008

His thoughtful response: “I know a bunch of people have tried (and there has actually been some discussion within the NTEN blogs and community about it) to use LinkedIn as a fundraising platform. But I have seen groups use LinkedIn to form committees that do fundraising, to have people volunteer time from an in-kind standpoint, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

They are thinking beyond fundraising to service delivery, health care, and many other segments of community activity for which they are responsible. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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MAY 12, 2007

I have never written an article in The Japan Times, though I have written articles on politics, fundraising and web marketing. Luckily, my own ranking is moving up due to writing for onPhilanthropy.com, a newsletter and blogs following the world of philanthropy and fundraising. Grace Lee did a film about all the people named Grace Lee.

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MARCH 12, 2008

It turns out that much of what fundraisers think they know is right, but there is a lot of subtlety. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Here’s what you need to read: What Makes People Give? The main example in the article is about matching programs.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Creating urgency is an important part of fundraising. And if they feel that way, then your appeals start to make them feel guilty, and guilt is not a tricky tactic in fundraising. There are many other approaches to fundraising, both online and off. I made that pledge, but I didn’t return the envelope. Why not tomorrow?

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JULY 2, 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!" www.socializemedia.com January 25, 2010 | mike hanson Great article on these tools.

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FEBRUARY 3, 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!" February 19, 2010 | Grace Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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JUNE 1, 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!" You read that right: 15 years in online fundraising. nonprofits in 2008.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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MAY 25, 2007

Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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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!" Social media and online offers tremendous ROI when used properly.

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