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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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

They collect ways for you to get involved in the causes you care about from 30+ action sources like Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch. They'll also be launching a web application development contest, Change the Web 2009 , in January.

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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. Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! As some readers of this blog may remember, last year at about this time, I celebrated the big 5.0

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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. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Go vote here.

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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. That’s not good a good sign — cause he’s definitely trying to sell something, and this customer doesn’t know what it is. I must admit I didn’t read every word.

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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? Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process.

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