ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Recent research findings by Christopher Einolf and Susan Chambre (2011) provided empirical evidence of the strong influence of both formal and informal social networks on volunteering. Professor and Director.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

Because gaming fundraisers are often highly dependent on existing social networks, your nonprofit should be especially familiar with best practices for peer-to-peer fundraising. Another option is to partner with an existing philanthropic gathering that doesn’t have a regular sponsored organization. Ways to Get Involved.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform has been around longer than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The majority of its users are on it daily, which provides businesses and brands with a great platform for implementing a social media marketing strategy. . People are researching you: Who are these people?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

From building your e-newsletter list to finding your “Twitter voice&# to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing campaigns. Book Tour Sponsors. Table of Contents. Testimonials.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Book Tour Sponsors ?

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

Sometimes you uncover great, new ideas through careful research and execution. The change required major cuts to their programs, a new focus when working with sponsors, and a drive to make it more inclusive for a broader audience. Sponsors will be eager to support hybrid events due to their expanded representation online and in-person.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. That is the essence/purpose of social media to me: sharing our stories or experiences in hopes that someone else will relate, reach out or spread the word.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Every full time staffer we have on the Emerging Media team has been paid for by raising money on social networks. We’ve done so many things in social media that flopped.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2011

From building your e-newsletter list to finding your “Twitter voice&# to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing campaigns. Book Tour Sponsors. Table of Contents. e-Newsletter.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2017

Sponsored by Reward Volunteers. You connect to others through volunteering, and if you do it regularly, you can maintain those valuable social networks into the future. With a larger social network, you’ll have more resources at your fingertips, which leads to better physical, mental and emotional health.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Book Tour Sponsors. Book Tour ?. ?

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Social Impact Nonprofit Social Media Survey View more presentations from Weber Shandwick Social Impact. The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Measure social media with key metrics for visibility, engagement and advocacy .

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2011

[Editor's note: the following is an excerpt from the 2011 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report , sponsored by NTEN , CommonKnowledge , and Blackbaud. It turns out that nonprofits of all sizes are able to scale their fundraising efforts on commercial social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was great to catch up with long-time colleague, Marnie Webb , Co-Ceo. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It's hardly news to anyone that we're experiencing a gradual convergence of phones, Internet, computers, video, and social networking. One interesting look at how unified commuinications is changing work is a white paper sponsored by TechSoup donor partner Citrix Online called Workshifting Benefits: The Bottom Line (2.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional features that enable social networking, like allowing visitors to create their own profiles on your site and link them to other people or groups, can be useful for more advanced community building, as can the ability to accept and post visitors’ content, such as stories, photos or blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

5. Can you comment on the value of using Facebook for community building, social networking, and true peope-to-people giving? It's hard to do research like that because there are so many different causes/organizations using Facebook. The best thing you can do is do research/listening as you implement your Facebook presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Right now our organization gets more than 20% of the traffic from the surplus of social media sites we are on. Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

This third and final post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For He also mentioned the very popular “Tech Tuesdays&# in Jordan where Arab social media geeks meet up regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. A common critic of online giving through social media is that the dollar amounts are too low per donor and donations tend to be transactional, not relationship-based or one-time donors. . Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Frogloop Blog.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Here at Network for Good, where we process donations for over 10,000 nonprofit websites and serve as the engine for many social networks (like Causes on Facebook), we see similar renewal rates -- but important differences depending on where donors give online. What's a nonprofit to do?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Safer Internet Day is an annual Microsoft sponsored public service campaign to take practical steps to protect ourselves against identity and data theft, email phishing scams, cyber bullying, social media over sharing, and other perils of life on the Internet. The New Cancer Research UK Smartphone Game. Safer Internet Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 The origins of what became Google began as a research project. They had at the tips of their fingers vast amounts of information and knowledge, so they no longer had to travel to libraries to obtain research and have access to information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net? Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” The panel also featured, Mary Beth [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

I am doing some research for a friend who is working for a wonderful, large nonprofit that serves and engages youth. We are also interested in other kinds of teen social networking under the auspices of a nonprofit or other "social sector" kind of organization. Can anyone help her?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Don’t Just Research Your Audience, Make Them Part of the Presentation.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There was a great discussion about social networking, particularly Facebook apps.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The Boomer Esiason Foundation raised thousands of dollars for cystic fibrosis research by working with corporate sponsors who donated five dollars for every tweet or Foursquare check-in charity supporters made that used the hashtag "#tackleCF." The campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

He is an active tagger and expert in social networking sites. His company was a sponsor of the conference. He was a participant in the small group role play on social media and we had great fun. Andy Roberts is a doctoral student from the New York Botanical Garden doing his research in a rural province in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

I was inspired by Jon Udell's screencasts in this genre, and did some background research, but hit a wall. So, I searched him out on some social networking sites to see if I might contact him directly. See my tagging and widge t screencasts also sponsored by NTEN). But, I blogged all my research notes.

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