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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good? Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online.

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