Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Chad Norman, publisher of I dig webby things.and I bet you do too I dig speaking at nonprofit conferences and events, and one of my favorite topics to cover is the real-time use of social media. It's all of those things, but it's also something else: a real-time fundraising tool! Clearly it works.but why?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

It’s that time of year when we are ready to open our hearts in gratitude and do good things for others. I’d like to highlight two wonderful campaigns that could be wonderful ways to show your gratitude. Here’s an example from John Haydon who is doing a special campaign on her behalf. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Now many of these discussions are also taking place in large communities filled with millions of people – and often times with people who have never even met in person before. You should follow Frogloop on Twitter. Builds stronger connections with members of the media and legislators who are active on social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

And celebrating holidays (or planning for a holiday ) on Twitter is also becoming a tradition but these are community-driven efforts and some have been connected with raising money for good causes. The first example and a brilliant one was " Trick or Tweet " cooked up by the good folks at FutureNow. Early research from Peter Kim.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. The Alliance for Climate Education is a great example of that. org before?

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