Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010. Without their online technical expertise and amazing social and mobile sharing tools, we never could have made all this happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. How big is video online? More than 85% of US internet users watched online video in July, and on average they spent more than 14 hours doing it. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Test, but be careful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Since the beginning , Hughes has said that Jumo is “an online platform to connect individuals and organizations working to change the world.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

She said that she now sees that social media and online efforts could be very effective in raising awareness of the Bill.” but have built the campaign site and online/social media sharing mechanism, as well as a ‘My Nigerian Family Album’ board on Pinterest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The following year, I organized an Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam where panelists delivered their presentations as poems. In 2010, did a crowdsourced session on crowdsourcing. Here’s a couple I hope you’ll vote for those as well: Turning Online Donors Into Change Investors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

Vinay Bhagat of Convio was given the 2012 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact in online advocacy and fundraising. Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff, was the recipient. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference highlights include honoring General Colin and Alma Powell with the 2010 John W. Using social media at professional conferences to connect with peers in the room and online is simply a natural way of being for many NGEN nonprofit professionals. It’s the same for them at work, if the tools aren’t blocked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Malaria No More has a track record of doing attention getting online fundraisers involving celebrities. For World Malaria Day in 2010, there were many ways that social media users could participate and support World Malaria Day while supporting Malaria No More. The race was part of the World Malaria Day in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I’ve been doing this for two years now. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

They are also offering some cool prizes and incentives, including these Climate Love Packs (Wow, that grand prize is a Schwinn 2010 World NX7 Commuter bike.) Here are the different ways that you can participate: Leave a voicemail thanking a senator for improving the world and letting everyone know how much you love the climate.

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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. A summary of this report from AFP points to statistics from Pew Internet and American Life Millennial Study : Ninety-three percent of Millennials regularly go online, with 50 percent of this population using mobile Internet.

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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. They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. Though it never comes easy (and we too get our share of rejections), we’ve managed to convince a number of key funders of the value that this online giving event brings to Minnesota.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 11/16/09: Chase launched the online competition in November.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The Wisdom 2.0 This gets rid of the squirrels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Rather than trying to write it out it thought I’d point you to the graphic blog post or Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal … I found it on Beth’s Blog where she recapped her time at Blog World Expo 2010. Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits? Meet Geoff. Negatively?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Earlier this month, the Ad Council hosted a webinar on the topic of social media ROI with three great social media minds to help us navigate these and other thorny online issues. Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. David Almacy, Senior Vice President at Edelman. Read your social media stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

She is the co-inventor of Goodwill’s patent pending online donation impact calculator. He works with organizational leaders to expand their sense of what is possible online and to innovate and succeed. Each year the report is released at 30+ news conferences with significant print/TV/online coverage. Ace: Do One Thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I bumped into Patricia Martin who just completed a fascinating report on Millennials online engagement with arts organizations and we had a conversation about this topic and the findings from her report. By Patricia Martin, 2010. Another way to use social media is for the sharing and distribution of the finding.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. As each fundraiser shares their campaign with their personal network via word of mouth and online, the number of people who know about charity: water quickly multiplies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Thanks to a generous grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation , GiveMN staff were able to travel around the state in September and October to offer nonprofit organizations in-person training on the GiveMN.org platform and advise them in online fundraising for Give to the Max Day. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Women are employed to spin the silk, weave the fabric and sew the items that are sold online. At Roteang Orphanage, we dropped in on the Computer School where older children were practicing their word processing, spreadsheet, and basic online skills. It feels to give back while eating out on vacation. We also visited Lulan artisans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Daily coordination with volunteers could be done through social media to bolster membership in the online communities and encourage interactions. Fear of the Unknown.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

If those two criteria are met by the stated deadline, Trek Travel will donate one 2010 Paris Finishing Package to witness the finale of the Tour de France !!  At work he helps nonprofits with technology, social media & online strategy.    And yes, airfare will be taken care of. fatcyclist responds.  

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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. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction?

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Three years later, GoFundMe is still riding the wave of social good, online payments and social networks. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. Increasingly however, businesses are moving their social good efforts online where they can have a broader impact.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

MomsRising Health Reform Blog Carnival – September 2010. Spread the word through comments sections of online news stories; these comments became major referring source to our website for that week.

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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. Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction?

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DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Holly Ross, NTEN, Four Lessons Learned About Social Media in 2010. Photo by M. Schenekenberg. Come join us in the Zoetica Salon. Happy New Year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Lucy Bernholz who writes the Philanthropy 2173 blog is a master of that - and is currently crowdsourcing trends and predictions for 2010. What will the social sector look like in 2010? The whole way nonprofits operate will change in 2010. Crowdsourcing is another example of working in a networked way.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

My role is to work with USA for UNHCR on building out the digital and social media aspects of the campaign, particularly from an online community-building point of view. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

. - although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

I then got into the non-profit sector in 2001 when I joined GiveIndia, the first and leading online giving portal in India. We want to have the entire population of non-profit organizations on an online system. We see ourselves as friends of non-profits, our primary stakeholder group, which has been very helpful.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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