Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

It’s not secret to nonprofits that fundraising is critical to the success of your mission. It is all about how to nurture a nonprofit organizational culture that has shared responsibility for fundraising among all of its people. It’s not secret to nonprofits that fundraising is critical to the success of your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. Source: Blackbaud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Note From Beth: Frank Barry from BlackBaud kindly agreed to write a guest post showcasing some of the best presentations caught on video at the BlackBaud’s Conference last week. Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry. Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. Meet Geoff. Negatively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. Donor Perfect is matching the next $3,000 that is donated).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

” Barb says she thought it was great that they might raise some money and some visibility on Facebook, but never in a million years did they anticipate that the fundraiser would transform into a global event. .” I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. … Read More Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.  Frank is a Consulting Manager at Blackbaud Internet Solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Networked Nonprofits: The Eva Longoria Case Study by Mark Drapeau, shares some examples and thoughts about Networked Nonprofits and free agent fundraisers. One of the techniques I tried was “conversational fundraising&# – which was less about the ask and more about having a conversation with people that might lead to donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

How does/that leverage into fundraising? short code fundraising??? ??? Smart organizations balance good content and communication with what the organization is doing with fundraising request. re raising money out-of-state, international fundraising has even more regulations. Mobile phones stay on. He mentioned that ???short

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

We recently launched a new blog here at Blackbaud Internet Solutions. It’s been an exciting endeavor and given us a lot of insight into using social media for nonprofits and fundraising! Think about how you could use Google Analytics – learn from the content you’re publishing to promote your nonprofit's fundraising event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

Computerworld wrote about enterprise apps mentioning one from Blackbaud. Conclusion Amid the hype around the iPad and apps , there will be lots of potential ways that nonprofits could use iPad apps to support their missions - from engagement, fundraising, enterprise and program delivery as there is more widespread adoption by end users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. The premise of the article misses the point and ignores a fundamental principle of fundraising ? If you do a good job, then the fundraising will follow. If you want to succeed using Web 2.0, Lose control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

Says Madeline Turner from Blackbaud, “ The Future Is Here ” Take the Test, But Don’t Freak Out If You Flunk: John Kenyon , a nonprofit technology consultant, was the voice of calm. 5 Interview several of them, get quotes, make a choice, budget for it (consider a fundraising campaign around it). Work the project plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. Also, be sure to read Sean's summary of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about how a new generation is reinventing fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Blackbaud, Inc. I'd add fundraising with a ton of caveats). Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Some very useful posts in there! Social bookmarking in plain English!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

" Marketing and Fundraising Charitable gift catalogs ignites blog buzz notes the Donor Power Blog, providing context and a roundup of blogosphere reaction. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2014

GivingTuesday UP 36% (h/t @blackbaud online clients via @SMacLaughlin @htimms. While the magic of GivingTuesday isn’t the dollars raised, the early results indicate many successful fundraisers. Even my kids schools that leveraged the day to fundraise locally. BREAKING: Black Friday down 11%. That was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Note from Beth: Last week I presented remotely at the Blackbaud Conference. Alternative giving is a fun way to turn awesome supporters into awesome fundraisers! Note from Beth: Last week I presented remotely at the Blackbaud Conference. View more presentations from Chad Norman. we’d love to hear from you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

In the nonprofit sector, we are also lucky to have excellent financial and benchmarking data from Blackbaud and Chronicle of Philanthropy. But many nonprofits rely on social media analytics alone to give them data about social media and online fundraising campaigns, looking at conversion rates of landing pages. What you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2012

Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. Frank Barry is the , Internet strategy manager at Blackbaud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’ll be talking about the role of hyper-connected donors based on my experience and some recent research that shows how valuable these champions are for crowdfunding and social fundraising. 9237 is the average amount raised when groups are working on a team to fundraise. Set realistic fundraising goals. Fundraising'

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