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An 11-Step Guide to Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The title “Help Us Cure Breast Cancer!” Others can use this hashtag to easily find social media posts about your cause across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. 8) Promote your fundraiser offline. on the other hand, gets right to the point and encourages people to find out more.

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Twibbon: A Twitter Tool That Puts a Ribbon on Your Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. Tags: twitter. If I remember correctly, it was Robert Scoble who did it first and others took his cue. What do you think?

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How To Create The Best Fundraising Event Invitation + Top Event Invite Examples

CauseVox

The most effective way to increase the number of touches you have is to share your invitation in a wide variety of channels , both online and offline. Your invitation on Twitter will look different from a direct mail postcard. . Fundraising Event Invite Example: Stupid Cancer’s TOAST Gala.

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Leah Jones Is Taking A 3-Day Journey To Fight Breast Cancer and Social Actions Can Help You Find Other Related Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You’ll want to create a Twitter hashtag for the event and make sure it isn’t already being used. Here’s an excellent example from National Colon Cancer Advocates, members of the Fight Colorectal Cancer community advocacy day in Washington, DC. Also set up a system in advance so you can track the hashtag.

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Judi Sohn

Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. Follow me on Twitter.

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