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6 Tips on How to Use Social Media to Acquire New Donor Prospects

Nonprofit Tech for Good

She provides proven fundraising strategies, tactics, and tools including coaching, training, and content for fundraising success. Surely, we should be looking at social networks as a “cultivation” and “relationship-building” tool in the same sense that we do offline in person.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. Here are a few reasons why using multiple social networking platforms doesn’t just mean you repeat your effort. Community First.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool.

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Online Community Building: Gardening vs Landscaping

Amy Sample Ward

how can I be a community builder online? to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). Others see it as specifically applying to online community spaces, like a social networking site. where is the community you want to build? Tips, secrets, ideas?! Your Community.

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Mapping Your Online/Offline Activism: Surfrider Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. They use Internet tools and regional trainings to support learning across the network. How to weave the two in order to scale.

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Facebook: Is it Worth your Nonprofit’s Time?

NetWits

Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. Like other studies have noted, social networks like Facebook are not raising much money. hours per week on the social network.

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. The Research. What It Means. No running in the halls!

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