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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social Media Gets Word Out, Rumors Still Fly | The NonProfit Times : When Hurricane Katrina hot New Orleans and ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, Twitter was still a few months from being born and Facebook was still a crawling infant. There were smartphones but they too were not yet real mobile devices.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Wish You Could Change the Name of Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page? Now You Can  Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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APRIL 11, 2014

Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO : You’ve got social media covered. But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. Please—you were an early adopter. And Twitter? You could do 140 characters or less in your sleep.

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APRIL 3, 2013

The Permanent Disruption of Social Media | Stanford Social Innovation Review : Spending an entire workday on Facebook isn’t part of a typical nonprofit employee’s job description. But for one day last fall, all of the people who work at For Love of Children (FLOC) spent all of their time on Facebook.

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MAY 29, 2013

5 Ways to Supercharge Your Nonprofit''s Facebook Page :everyone says Facebook can grow your audience. After all, it''s one of the most used and most powerful social media tools on the planet. You started a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. You have a few likes. You''ve posted some updates.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Nonprofits Say Facebook News-Feed Changes Hurting Outreach - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : "Nonprofits Say Facebook News-Feed Changes Hurting Outreach Charities that rely primarily on social media to raise awareness and share information about their causes are growing restive over (..)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Social Media Power #GivingTuesday Holiday Giving Effort - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : While it is too early to tally how many charities are participating and how much money has been raised, it’s not too soon to monitor the considerable social-media buzz for #GivingTuesday, (..)

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AUGUST 10, 2010

SOCIAL MEDIA MANIA - Association Bisnow - Washington: "t seems not so long ago that we were all minimizing Facebook and Twitter on our desktops every time the boss walked by. Now, many are expected to be logged in from 9-to-5 (and beyond).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Causes Starts Social Network Focused on Charitable Passions - Social Media - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Causes, a company that got its start as a Facebook application for donating money to charity, today transformed itself into a full-fledged social network.'

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MARCH 7, 2013

Toyota NZ launches Facebook charity giveaway | Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine : 5 charities around New Zealand will receive a free Toyota Corolla at the conclusion of the Japanese car company’s clever social media campaign. The campaign, called 25 Ways to Say Thanks (www.25waystosaythanks.co.nz),

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Improved customer engagement via social media a key goal for marketers | TMA Resources : Organizations of all kinds – private and public, corporate and nonprofit – are increasingly striving to utilize social media.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - : As nonprofit senior leadership starts taking social media more seriously to engage supporters, they are also starting to ponder their own organization’s influence. DIY NotKlout! Fair enough.

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APRIL 28, 2011

CharityVillage Research: Five Things to Do Before You "Do Social Media" : "Like many charities and nonprofit organizations, you've probably put 'Do something with social media!' Most nonprofits are already maintaining a presence on one to three popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tech Council launches first social media fundraiser • Business (www.HometownAnnapolis.com - The Capital): "When helping out the homeless, few people put computers and LCD monitors on their list of donations.

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JUNE 30, 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: "Guest Post by Hildy Gottlieb: 3 Steps to Success on FacebookSubmitted by Hildy Gottlieb, publisher of Creating the Future!We We hear it almost every day - another organization who is wildly successful on Facebook or Twitter or MySpace.

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MARCH 25, 2011

ROI of social media can be an intangible- The NonProfit Times March 15, 2011: "here's Facebook, Second Life, Myspace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and now Jumo. There are many smaller social networking platforms. What's It Cost?

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APRIL 28, 2010

The Nonprofit Quarterly | The Nonprofit Quarterly | Nonprofit Newswire | Four Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Reconsider Facebook: "April 27, 2010; Source: Nonprofit Tech 2.0 | Is your organization on Facebook? Like myriad other nonprofits, NPQ is.

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AUGUST 15, 2008

Why nonprofit communicators need social media | Article | Homepage articles: "Why nonprofit communicators need social mediaBy Melissa UnderwoodMelissau @ragan.comFour social media sites help recruit donors, deliver the messageA three-person team of twentysomethings spend all day networking on Facebook, MySpace and other social media outlets to do their (..)

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JUNE 3, 2009

Resources to Help Your Nonprofit Group Navigate Online Social Media - Philanthropy.com: "Resources to Help Your Nonprofit Group Navigate Online Social MediaMany nonprofit leaders recognize the potential of online social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to help build more meaningful relationships with donors, volunteers, and supporters."

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MAY 18, 2009

Nonprofits warm up to social media :: WRAL.com: "Raleigh, N.C.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Small Non-Profit Uses Social Media Win Online Fundraising Contest :: PNNOnline ::: "Critical Exposure, a small D.C.-based

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MAY 18, 2009

Nonprofits hope to find new patrons via Facebook, Twitter - Salt Lake Tribune: "You have to have a strategy and we don't,' said Meadows, one of 14 nonprofit leaders in attendance last week when John Dye and Philip Case of Bountiful's Fluid Studios offered a two-hour introduction to social media, which struggling nonprofits are using to reach more potential (..)

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Another typical day for the communications and marketing director of War Child Canada, where tweeting and Facebook updates are as commonplace as checking one's email. With social media the buzzword of late, some nonprofits are taking the plunge,

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JUNE 8, 2009

Nonprofits turn to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter to raise money, market themselves - Metro - cleveland.com: "Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are turning to relatively cheap online social media to raise money and market their organizations as they grapple with recession-battered endowments, fewer grants and, often, less patronage by their customers." (..)

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MARCH 15, 2012

Building Better Nonprofit Blogs - Social Good - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : When nonprofits develop ideas for using social media, they tend to focus on networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

I’ll Take My Fundraising Cannibalism On the Rocks | The Agitator - Fundraising, Direct Marketing and Advocacy Strategies for Nonprofits : s of yesterday, the high visibility ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ had produced $15.6 million from existing donors, plus 307,598 new donors for The ALS Association. Icebucketchallenge'

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Just as electronic communication altered how we interact with the world, so the use of social and digital media is changing how most nonprofit organizations communicate with their constituencies, and even creating shifts in how the organizations work.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Social, mobile boost small nonprofits' reach, relationships - ZDNet Asia News : Mobile and social media are essential for charities, especially if they want to attract the "iTunes, Facebook and YouTube generation", said David Erasmus, philanthropist and chief executive of Givey.

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JUNE 29, 2012

Tweet by Tweet, Building Nonprofit Awareness - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy. :

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AUGUST 17, 2011

GOOD to Acquire Jumo, a Nonprofit Charity Site - NYTimes.com : "GOOD, a fast-growing publishing and marketing business dedicated to promoting social causes, is acquiring Jumo, a social networking site devoted to raising money and support for nonprofit groups.

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JULY 2, 2009

Twitter/Facebook: Time Well-Spent for Child/Youth Advocates? Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center: "Twitter/Facebook: Time Well-Spent for Child/Youth Advocates?by by Ray Schultz, Child Advocacy 360This year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference drew standing-room only crowds to sessions on social media.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Tweeting Raising Awareness, But Not Direct Dollars - The NonProfit Times Oct 1, 2010: "Tweeting Raising Awareness, But Not Direct DollarsBy Mark HrywnaOnly 3 percent of all Tweets by a sample of nonprofits were dedicated to fundraising or solicitation.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Communities: Real and Imagined by Quintus Jett of Rutgers University | Community Techknowledge : I've seen many nonprofit organizations struggle with how to harness the growing capabilities of social media to build community and resources.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Community Foundation launches new fundraising method | Home | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA : LAFAYETTE — The Community Foundation of Acadiana launched a new donation method — an embeddable fundraising widget — to make it easier for people to give to nonprofit organizations that are assisting those recovering from last week’s flash flooding.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

massnonprofit.org ::: "ugust 19, 2010 — Given the ever-changing landscape of social media, which includes Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, finding the best form of social media—matched to organizational resources and goals—is vital in connecting with an audience, according to experts at Massachusetts nonprofits."

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JUNE 23, 2011

Editorials | Seattle's Internet philanthropy campaign: Log in and give big | Seattle Times Newspaper : "SEATTLE'S deep roots in philanthropy and technology are nicely twinned in a bold, one-day fundraising campaign benefiting local nonprofits.

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