Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. You’ll also notice that the comments have many likes and many of those come directly from the Facebook admin for the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement. Facebook Ladder of Engagement.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The free agent community exists on a social network and decides, as a group, to raise funds for an unafilliated nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. But the idea of doing this through your online social networks has become normalized in the last few years as online social networks have become intertwined with our lives.

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APRIL 25, 2022

For a list of best practices for walkathons, bikeathons, and other competitive spring fundraising campaigns, check out our recent blog post ! Amigos de las Americas uses peer-to-peer fundraising, a type of community-driven fundraising, to engage their supporters. How does community-driven fundraising work to engage donors? The goal?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. Code for America Civic Hack Night. Monday, April 4, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. blog posts from Geoff Livingston and Valeria Maltoni about one popular influence measuring tool. Hildy Gottlieb asks for advice about what to do about those pesky community pages on Facebook. Respond here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

As some readers of this blog may remember, last year at about this time, I celebrated the big 5.0 birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. Make a donation on behalf of the Cambodians like my friend Phy that want to help us win this contest.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Through this research, as well as in his role at Achieve, Derrick has worked with companies and organizations such as AT&T, Facebook, BMW, PBS and the Case Foundation to understand how the next generation of donors, activists and employees are redefining cause work. Kivi Leroux Miller. He loves clubs. And community.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. The winning stories will also be featured on the TechSoup_Impact blog at TechSoup.org as Featured Stories in May 2015. Eligibility.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. The winning stories will also be featured on the TechSoup_Impact blog at TechSoup.org as Featured Stories in May 2015. Eligibility.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. They both use the MySpace blog, which reminds us again to speak to the community where they are, don’t try and drag them over to your main blog. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. Take your pick!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. The opera staff collected the suggestions and summarized them on their blog. Opera is not the only art form, there’s been crowdsourced choreography – Dance Theatre Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Both the writers and readers of blogs on BlogHer are an engaged, active community, and it's terrific to see them coming together to raise funds for projects that will help ensure that babies and mothers have the best possible chance of being physically and emotionally healthy. We are really excited about our new partnership with BlogHers Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. Unfortunately, many don't have regular Internet access (or credit cards) so their support doesn't count towards the contest. He made a donation to the campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Launch a blog inside your website. ? Prominently feature a “Donate” button and social network icons on your home page and every page of your website and blog. ? Add an e-newsletter subscription form to your home page and every page of your website and blog. ? Select a website and blog analytics service. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work. From my son's kindergarten class.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Launch a blog inside your website. Prominently feature a “Donate” button and social network icons on your home page and every page of your website and blog. □ Add an e-newsletter subscription form to your home page and every page of your website and blog. □ Select a website and blog analytics service. □

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program. Take for example contests. Contests have been a marketing tactic for years. The Case Foundation's pioneering work in online challenges has been replicated by many in the philanthropic sector and now contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

James Young talked about how nonprofits are using these tools for campaigns , Randi Zuckerberg gave an overview of Facebook and nonprofit activity and Scott Goodstein shared his experience from the Obama Campaign. A recent example is the Humane Society's Spa Day Photo Contest which raised over $600,000. As my colleague David J.

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JUNE 19, 2021

But at Pedal the Cause, because it’s a small organization, a small group of people, and we didn’t really want it to be a popularity contest, we kind of put it. Mostly, that was things like them running a Facebook fundraiser for their birthday or getting a friend to buy a ticket to an event. . So there wasn’t.

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