Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Public Diplomacy in the Age of Social Media. Hosted by: New America Foundation. Location: New America Foundation. How does social media change how statecraft is practiced in the 21st century? What have been some lessons learned from the pioneers who have logged on to listen and engage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Here’s a quick list of benchmark studies of nonprofits and social media: NTEN/Common Knowledge Social Network Benchmark Report , NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study , PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking and Digital IQ Public Sector Benchmark. Holly Ross, NTEN, Four Lessons Learned About Social Media in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Related - TechPresident's Micah Sifry reflects on Obama campaign lessons and asks whether we have adequate tools for mass collaboration; these transition experiments may be showing how to scale up such collaboration. Quick scan - look who's already using Twitter: US "AIDSGov" Service [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. Designing Effective Social Media Learning Experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

I shared some learnings from the recent America's Giving Challenge Campaign which raised a total of $93,000 (included the $50K prize) from 1829 donors (1650 official count on 1/31 at 3 PM EST) in 50 days. The points include: (1) In the 5 campaigns I've done, it has evolved to a personal, socially networked fundraising campaign.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

An external champion is a new breed of donor who cares so much about your campaign that they’re willing to spread the word to their friends and ask them to donate, especially through their online social networks. They have been called “ brand advocates ” or “ super fans.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

More recently, they've been used by the nonprofit and philanthropic sector to encourage nonprofits to adopt social media tools to leverage fund raising. Pepsi is also learning many valuable lessons in contest design so that the crowd picks the best social change solution, not the best vote getter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We did John Kerry for President, before that, Howard Dean for America. We also work with some socially responsible businesses like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters; we are working with Annie's Organic right now, and so a broad mix of people who are trying to make the world a better place.

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