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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

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It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Why Your Nonprofit Won't Make a KONY 2012 by Jason Mogus. ” Read more here.

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The Best Trends and Lists of 2012

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Don’t worry though, we have taken care of the heavy lifting at Frogloop and summarized our favorite “best of” lists that highlights strategists favorite trends and strategies from 2012. Nonprofit Marketing P osts of 2012. Best of 2012: Tops Apps for SmartPhones and Tablets. Full article here.

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12 Must-Know Stats About Social Media, Fundraising, and Cause Awareness

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Until recently the nonprofit pioneers of the Social Web had to mostly rely on their intuition that their social media campaigns were resulting in more dollars raised online, an increase in brand and cause awareness, and higher rates of volunteer recruitment and retention. That said, congrats to the early adopters! Source: M+R and NTEN.

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Giving Away Four Free Passes To Millennial Donor Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. I’m one of the bloggers and I will be covering a session called “Leveraging Peer Influence” with Paull Young, Charity Water and Holly Ross, NTEN. The description.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. It’s for this reason that Accuracy in Media made my 2012 Favorite Nonprofits list. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Strategies to Manage an Online Crisis

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Framing a campaign or situation that your constituents or the public did not think was an accurate portrayal is another example of how an online crisis can unfold. For example, when the first Kony 2012 campaign video was released and went “viral” it helped energize their own constituents.