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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Friday, September 8, 2017.

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Telling Your Story: NetSquared #Storymakers2017 Workshops for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Cleveland, Ohio: How to Remarket to Website Visitors via Facebook and Twitter. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Saturday, August 5, 2017.

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Cleveland, Ohio: How to Remarket to Website Visitors via Facebook and Twitter.

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If your organization tweets it, will they donate?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. Does it exist?

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First there was Trick or Tweet, and Now Tweetsgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And celebrating holidays (or planning for a holiday ) on Twitter is also becoming a tradition but these are community-driven efforts and some have been connected with raising money for good causes. He further describes how this works: As a result, the most powerful activity within Twitter is to watch the "Retweet" phenomeneon.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. There’s no limit to either. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact.

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