Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. Anyway, I'm using my status on Facebook to tell everyone what I want for my birthday later this month. I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? And, Rob gives us a second example of nonprofit organization on Facebook.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. Is Facebook and MySpace a trend? That’s not good a good sign — cause he’s definitely trying to sell something, and this customer doesn’t know what it is.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

It's a great example of cause marketing, of online collaboration, of social entrepreneurship, and online innovation. The whole contest infrastructure is online - submission, discussion, refining, and sharing. I interviewed her Nov 5, 2008 at our Marketing and Online Communities Conference. AMEX gave away $2.5m

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