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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. Example of Integrated Mobile Campaign: Salvation Army. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. What questions do you have? What are you learning so far?

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. are examples of the causes. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, Gates and Warren Buffett publicly launched the Giving Pledge to encourage billionaires to donate the bulk of their wealth to charity, which includes one from Zuckerberg, although it does not describe the scale of his gift.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. This is yet another example of what Pew Internet research director Lee Rainey has called “ Networked Individualism.” This campaign is a great example. After the workshop, I hung out with participants providing some coaching.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010. So What and Who Cares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How networked nonprofits use twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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APRIL 1, 2012

We will be discussing these questions: What are some successful examples of nonprofits incorporating a mobile/social integrated strategy? The campaign is an example of an integrated social/mobile campaign that seamlessly integrates the message across different channels for different audiences. What are the best practices?

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JULY 19, 2010

Join us on Friday, July 23, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at Pro Arts Gallery ( [link] ) at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, a stone’s throw from the Oakland City Center/12th Street BART station. For example, check out her “ 50 Young Nonprofit Leaders To Follow on Twitter &# list. More information here. Rosetta is a fellow book nerd.

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JULY 2, 2012

She again invited me to present at the Nasscom NILF Conference in 2010 and teach workshops. In the green courtyard, there was physical education class where they teaching the kids to do stretches and exercises. Movement is also in the classroom – for example, this hop scotch board to learn spelling.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Bedsider’s audience, for example, also follows Jimmy Fallon and Katy Perry, not only other groups that promote birth control. Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. If you want to reach a broader social media audience, post about topics outside of your specific issue area. Government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

For example, when a gift was smaller than $100 we had set up the system to send them an automatic email thank you letter, when it was between $101-$1,000 we added the gift to an “end of the week” acknowledgement list, and if the gift was larger than $1,000 the system created a task for the executive director to give them a call as soon as possible.

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JUNE 13, 2011

The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers. How would your nonprofit use this matrix to help measure and guide strategy formation?

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JUNE 9, 2010

For example, I share them on my welcome tab on my Facebook Page and on my LinkedIn profile. For example, David Armano , Dave McClure , and Guy Kawasaki. But you can also find rock star thought leaders in your field publishing their decks to Slideshare. For example, Amy Sample Ward , Danielle Brigida , and Michael Edson.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. For example, you can in a couple clicks go onto a site like Slideshare and see ideas on a topic from some of the best thinkers on that topic and recreate your own meaning of it. In a recent post by Scott Henderson offers up charity:water as an example.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

And over the years, many other communities and states have copied the idea – for example Georgia Gives Back Day. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250. We ran the ad for the week of Give to the Max Day 2010 and in the end only spent $44.71 Experimented with a Facebook promoted post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. Adam Braun , the founder of Pencils of Promise , is another example of a founder who is a very effective brand evangelist. Then tell these stories in multiple mediums: on your website, on your blog and in your social media channels, for example.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I guess you could say it is an example of in-bound marketing. The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. Take for example the Haagen-Daz campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. .

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.    And yes, airfare will be taken care of. fatcyclist responds.

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JULY 26, 2017

In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. For example we use the Chinese folk story, The Empty Pot to teach kids about honesty. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Here are some examples: Needs Assessment. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. He offered to write a guest post.

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APRIL 29, 2010

So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media. The questions were a mix of strategic and tactical. .  

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AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. A powerful and recent example of this is the Smithsonian’s campaign to Reboot the Suit and preserve the space suit Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon. After all, I was ancient. I’m not that old.

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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. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

The Blue Key site was only launched in December 2010, and its social/digital aspects were relatively new, so there was not a lot of data to base KPIs on. What were the specific goals and KPIs for the campaign (assuming web traffic and key purchases?) Why important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

We provide resources to effectively share information about the ways that causes can use the platform to engage with supporters — for example, we produce best practice guides and Facebook live talks that we make available online at our Nonprofit Resource Center. In 2010, 35 year-old Gabe Canales was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2010, eager to address these changes, the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) launched a program called Pioneers in Justice , offering intense support to a cohort of Bay Area Gen X leaders who had recently become executive directors of legacy social justice organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

On Saturday, I was delighted to have an opportunity to attend and speak at the SexTech 2010 Conference. Sex::Tech 2010 Presentation View more presentations from Skild. Andre has a deep knowledge of this space and pointed me to many great examples. Their presentations rocked and I've included them below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

For example, your lists, real-time search results, DMs, Twitter stream, and now retweets are key pillars to the personal experience at Twitter.com. This is on my list for 2010, to take a deeper dive in filtering tools. Unlike these desktop applications however, Twitter.com remains as the pervasive interface. for engaging on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Since then, over 10,000 individual fundraisers have raised more than $11 million – including over $1 million for Central African Republic as part of the 2010 September Campaign to bring clean water to all of the Bayaka people. Tell me about this year’s campaign? What are your SMART objectives? What are your key performance indicators?

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JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. We also had some back end tools that provided details on the usage and activity; for example out of 359 accounts set up, 177 actually made it to Pathable and did some activity (that is 49%)– and we have graphs! Heck, it’s time to start thinking about 2010.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

conference in 2010. Here's a few examples: Shireen Mitchell who I had never met face-to-face but who generously provided information about people of color and the social web via Twitter while I doing a workshop demo. I think the above example shows it might go both ways. Rising from the ashes, will be nonprofit2.0

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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. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events? What is important to take into 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. . Plans for 2010 Twestival are already in the works. Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

As we started to look at different examples of "social media for social good" on the corporate side, we found ourselves asking "What isn't lethal generosity?" We've been reviewing examples for case studies in our research and some use more than one tactic. Take for example contests. Photo by Martin Heigan.

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JULY 12, 2011

For example, a campaign about a push to reduce prison penalties in California to reduce the budget might not get a reader’s attention as a more “likeable&# cause. The “ Vote NO on 8 ” campaign sought to defeat a November 2010 ballot proposition that would have led to larger K-12 class sizes in Florida public schools.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

And now we have a real-life example with the Pepsi Refresh Contest making a mistake by not following its own rules, but moving swiftly to acknowledge it, fix it, and move on. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010.

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