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. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. Giving Tuesday takes a lot of these ideas and blends them together.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. TechSoup kicked off its Nonprofit Live series with a discussion on the Future of Fundraising.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. While most of it was not particularly new for those of us who have been following, studying, working in social media for nonprofits, it all bears repeating. Social media is not a spectator sport—it’s a contact sport.” There were lots of good gems shared and discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. .

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