Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Engage influencers and free agents.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). What’s new? What works?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Provide numerous ideas, but do emphasize the most efficient methods such as sending email through a tool like everdayhero. Tools like everydayhero will even send automated messages when 50% or 100% of the goal is reached. Provide samples of everything.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off tomorrow and one of the key elements to Community Day is the Science Fair. Click & Pledge Free I-POD ClientTrack by Data-Systems International Stop by our booth for a demo of ClientTrack™Online Case Management and Reporting Software. Ask for details during your demo.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Last year, Blackbaud saw a 53% increase on this day of giving in comparison from 2011. So why not use peer-to-peer event fundraising methods and tools to maximize your #GivingTuesday campaign? Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Work completion is clearly a goal as is accuracy. Recording results and analyzing outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2011. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. Thanks to platforms such as Causecast, employees can put their free time to good use during the workday. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Joe, what you are missing are the contest platforms,” said Michael.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. PARTICIPATION IS POLITICAL When I wrote The Participatory Museum , I wrote about participation as a design tool--a wrench that could be turned to reach certain goals in a cultural setting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. " With PaperKarma.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. NPTech Contests and Awards. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” Tomorrow, the Lean Start Up is sponsoring a free web cast called, “ Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations.” When the IDEO team was working on a new financial tool for a project in Mexico, they used Lean Startup’s focus on Customer Development to test it with real potential customers.

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