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. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. The Mobile Giving Foundation already provides help to charities in developing mobile giving capacity.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

On Giving Tuesday 2015 , The Office of University Development at University of Michigan set an example for how this kind of thoughtful planning and preparation can dramatically increase results: 1000 donors completed gifts online within the first 49 minutes. $1 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m. Advanced Planning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 20, 2016

The data can be used to help your nonprofit craft a technology and fundraising strategic plan. 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report :: Download. Published by Georgetown University. If you would like to suggest a report be added to the list, please send a link to the report to Nonprofit Tech for Good. Published by Blackbaud.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Last Tuesday night our friends at PATH hosted the second "Seattle Web for Global Health" Roundtable. It was generally agreed that Twitter and Facebook are good vehicles for establishing a social media presence with relatively low cost and a strong likelihood of organizational buyin.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Featuring a lively mix of nonprofit technology guests sharing their unique perspectives on ways to harness the power of gaming as a catalyst for good, you'll hear how some organizations are using games as a platform for teaching leadership skills, problem solving, and global community building to youth. Barry Joseph, Global Kids.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Statistica report on social media use, users spend an average of 136 minutes per day on social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Global reach : Nonprofits do not have to limit themselves to their immediate geographic location for support. Facebook alone has 2.41 Be consistent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

It is a major day of global celebration of women. She will study chemistry, math, physics, biology, and Khmer literature at the University where she hopes to major in architecture. It is a major day of global celebration of women. Happy International Women’s Day ! Happy International Women’s Day!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2016

Today Microsoft Philanthropies announced it will donate $1 billion of Microsoft Cloud services to nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years to serve the public good. How Can Cloud Services Help Your Nonprofit? Expanding Nonprofit Donations to Microsoft Cloud Services. Image : Microsoft. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. questions surrounding globalization and social justice. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

Three panelists steered the discussion: Ed Bennett, Manager of Web Operations at the University of Maryland Medical Center. This enabled them to use Twitter ( @swhealthcare ) to push out announcements during the crisis. Look to global health: Right now, most innovations are happening in global health.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&#

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

Jocelyn is passionate about helping nonprofits to succeed online so that they can change the world! As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Network for Good , she is privileged to lead the team to help over 5,000 nonprofits raise more friends and funds online. You can follow Jocelyn on Twitter at @jocelynharmon. “I

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The hashtag, as defined by Twitter , was created because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data. Since Twitter did not develop this capability into its system, the community came up with their own way: hashtags. A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives. David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. Aaron Bramley - Lights Camera Help. A regular contributor to PBS MediaShift Idea Lab, Tom also blogs for the Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex and seem huge.    His goal was to inspire other people, just like him, to be the generation that helps end extreme poverty.  m just a guy who - like a lot of people - was always concerned about important issues like global poverty but wasn???t It doesn???t

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JUNE 10, 2022

Cora graduated from Regent University with a master’s degree in organizational leadership & international business. This year, market research predicts that digital’s share of total advertising spend will near 50% globally, and soon digital ad spending will surpass traditional mediums. Online auctions. Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

USA for UNHCR created the Blue Key campaign as a way to drive awareness of this global issue in the US. That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Why important?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account. Beth''s Blog recently featured a guest post by Christian Arno, Using Social Media Internationally: How Not to Get Lost in Translation , full of useful tips for anyone with a global audience. Register now!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Connect with OpenDataSF on Twitter @DataSF and check out its blog. Matt demonstrated the ease of using Food Scores to help consumers make healthier choices when shopping. Connect with Exygy on Twitter @exygy. Tackling Global Issues. Concrn for San Francisco's Tenderloin Residents. Bedside Reminders. What the Frac?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future. and their efforts.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

My TechSoup Global colleague Lewis Haidt was at the conference as well and penned Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy , which provides a good primer on what it is and how a nonprofit-centric sharing economy can benefit all of us. Our responsibility is to demand that seat at the table. Does the Sharing Economy Enable Social Good?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

While many nonprofits appear to be actively participating in external social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, many don't realize the risks of not fostering these groups within their organizations' website itself. provides a number of best practices that will help get you started. Why Internal Tools?

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Forum One

JULY 23, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. My kids emptied out their piggy banks to helped and cooperated in making a birthday campaign video. " This year, she wondered whether I was going to ask my family to give me an outhouse for my birthday.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

JULY 9, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. One cant help asking whether the charitable gifts one has given are fundamentally flawed, and are actually having little or no positive impact. Its a fascinating read, and I highly recommend it.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

APRIL 17, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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