Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

A lot of people have asked me about those widget fundraising campaigns I did last December. Using the ChipIn Fundraising Badge for a Personal Fundraising Campaign How I raised over $800 for a Cambodian Ophran's College Education in A Couple Weeks The lessons learned from my action learning experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Not only have I confessed this on my blog, but I went as far to compare tag sloppiness to car slopiness. I invited my readers to be copy editors, point out mistakes, and earn a typo police badge. And, last week I was outed as a widget slob by another well-respected blogger no less! I will be honest. Yes, it got messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

June: Extend the reach of your event by having participants add fundraising widgets and badges to their Facebook® profile pages and other web properties, including personal blogs and photo site profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Now, this is a cool use of a widget! I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. The 18seconds.org CFL Summit is taking place on February 22, 2007 and will be held at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jos??,

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). Bottom line: I love Indiegogo's nonprofit perks, especially the verified nonprofit badge you can put on your page.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). Bottom line: I love Indiegogo's nonprofit perks, especially the verified nonprofit badge you can put on your page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Deborah Finn has been playing with widgets and decided to install the MyBlogLog widget today. MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. s page looks like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

In both my campaigns, I let the fundraising widget/badge remain on my sidebar even after the campaign was over and we had made our goal. " So, don't take down your widget immediately! More out of laziness versus strategy. In both instances, there were additional contributions - or the "bounce."

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APRIL 8, 2014

transaction fee, and in return receive social media widgets and donor receipts. They use Foursquare to create partner badges. When people check in X number of times, they receive a badge from the application. There are already more than 160 million blogs, and more than 70 billion posts. Nonprofits pay a 2.5%

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

VCs need to work with communications folks to get their opportunities distributed, but a VC might also have her own Twitter feed or blog category to share new opportunities The VC could also use her own professional networks to target special skill sets (such as at LinkedIn). Outreach/Marketing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. Anonymous Blogging. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

The applications also include a widget badge (see above) that you can put on your web site to recruit people off of Facebook to join the fun. The mini games are not specifically designed to educate about the cause or charity - but are pure Facebook fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

Go to the KCET's landing page for the show and you'll see them promoting the Twitter account,(but not with a Twitter badge streaming the actual tweets.) Twitter isn't the only tool that is part of the strategy, there is also a video blog that is shot by an intern and shows a more informal side of Tavis answering people's questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. The Second Thoughts blog, in a post called " We Need A New Kind of Philanthropy " outlines ten ways a new kind of philanthropy could get started with the combination of social media and virtuality in worlds and games. My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? Is the blog used and updated? And is it even worth it ?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? Is the blog used and updated? And is it even worth it ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

" Ian goes onto suggest hwo use the tools with a different approach: "To really open all the doors and windows and let your staff and constituents mix it up in social-web contexts -- blogs, video- and photo-sharing, etc. Work with them to create a framework for measuring the ROI of your blogging efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. With one click, visitors can contribute dollars to your cause! That's my avatar sitting on top of the donation box (it spins!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

I wish at the time I had Steve Bridger's excellent analysis and roundup of using widgets or charity badges for fundraising or advocacy, focusing on examples from the UK and beyond. Steve points out a new widget in the UK called Carebadges and notes it aspires to be the yellow bracelet campaign of the web. Well done Steve!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Tools like widgets and charity badges, combined with social media networks, enable these fundraisers to extend their reach and amplify their message. Now that evangelizing has become as simple as posting a widget on a MySpace or Facebook page, they are promoting causes. Type 2: Fundraising Transformed Techie.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I have discussed on my blog that Academia and government must move to the net to best serve their "market" and that the biggest hurdle they face is "tradition" They are too set set in their ways to move effectively into new media. 60) Search « Patch-Through Call Services – Finally Ready for Prime Time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. Change.org now also sports a widget.

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