Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

and especially since the dramatic success of the Red Cross Haiti text fundraising. It was a low risk experiment on AppMakr to test drive the service before selecting a vendor and to learn what was involved. For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. But will the dramatic text fundraising that we saw the Red Cross experience translate to every non-profit that wants to add it to their tool bag?

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APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? What would be of most value to your existing audience – information, ability to transactions, and how? What is your objective? Who is the target audience?

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AUGUST 11, 2010

That’s why the Red Cross was so successful with their text message donation campaign during the Haiti crisis. You will likely have gained more relationships, deeper relationships, behavioral information, and increased the organization’s overall awareness and created opportunities to tell your story. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The second round of the contest opened on January 15th and the pre-contest promotion on January 14th on the contest fan page was met with a chorus of "Vote for Haiti." Chase had, in face, already donated to the relief efforts, although the link to the corporate press release was not posted on the Fan Page all until two days later.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Crowdsourcing also provided information on gas stations that were still open (and where lines were actually moving). In Haiti, for example, which was not even in the storm’s direct path, Sandy wiped out 40% of the autumn crop. Those with the fewest resources found themselves most vulnerable to the infrastructure failures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. There was link to the Charity for more information, but it made wonder how they are selecting these recommendations.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. Here’s the information: Give 30 minutes to help Pakistan. But access to relevant, timely, and up-to-date information about the flood remains elusive in this emergency context.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

This article summarizes new research from Forrester detailing "The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace." Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe. " Stephen Downes suggests a boycott, but points out it is no cakewalk.

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