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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Probably no better an indication of my love for the knowledge waiting to be unmasked within this tool, is the (fun?)

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun! Each case study includes background information about the issue and the campaign, key learnings, benchmark numbers, and outcomes.

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Tips from Invest in Kids, a CauseVox Nonprofit

CauseVox

For the past 23 years, Invest in Kids has hosted the Jane-A-Thon, a fun-filled ski and snowboarding event at Colorado’s Winter Park Resort. If participants hit the minimum, they received a benchmark prize but if they raised more, they could win bigger prizes. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign.

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Instagram for Nonprofits — How Your Org Can Get Onboard

Connection Cafe

The 2017 M&R Nonprofit Benchmark Study found that for every 1000 email subscribers, organizations can expect to have 39 Instagram followers, and that orgs experienced on average a 101% Instagram follower growth in 2016. Live videos on Instagram get preference in the Instagram news feed algorithm for display, so give it a try and go live!

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Got Your Ears On? How to Listen to Your Audience Using Social Media

NTEN

Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Google Reader will also suggest more relevant blog posts based on your feed subscriptions, all the better for listening. Now the fun starts.

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Twitter at PBS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She notes, "It is been going viral on Facebook without much promotion because it's fun. People want to play on Facebook, so we wanted to design something that was fun and got people interesting in the show. Her PBS station's first foray into Twitter was to set up a feed for Wired Science.

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Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In Urban Institute ’s work with Feeding America —a network of over 200 food banks across the country—they were careful to avoid collecting feedback in November and December. These issues have the potential to affect the representativeness of data collected—which is paramount for ensuring meaningful feedback. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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