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How Two Nonprofits Use Social Media To Help Save Fish – #keepemwet #SaveMarinsCoho

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The event is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program. I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. The Hold A Sign Meme. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years.

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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook.

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Free E-Book: NetworkforGood Giving Day Planning Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you don’t follow her on Twitter , you should! The e-book offers an overview of the benefits of participating in GivingDays like #GivingTuesday, followed by a whole lot of wisdom and best practices. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Click to Download.

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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s Maybe the phrase "meme lurker" is better? someone like me??? s voice louder than ever before.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are using Twitter, share links to new blog posts (you can shorten the urls with bit.ly ). Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. Place an AddThis or ShareThis button on the top of the blog. Post weekly roundups of blog posts about your issue.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. In order to enhance the transfer of knowledge, it is important that the messenger be seen as a credible expert on the information being presented. ". General non-profit interest. membership.