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MAY 12, 2011

Supporters who achieve the strongest fundraising success combine multiple social media tools (along with email and in person connections) in their communication efforts. Give your event participants an idea of how to use social media more effectively and throw in some out-of-the-box ideas to help them get started.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Do you plan on increasing your budget for social media efforts in 2011? What are the major focuses of your social media strategy in 2011? What’s your organizations social media maturity level? How long has your social media program existed? How do you organize your social media efforts?

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APRIL 13, 2013

That’s the hashtag we’ll be using when I start talking about the impact of social media on fundraising with John Haydon , Farra Trompeter from BigDuck, Carie Lewis from HSUS and Casey Golden from SmallAct at #13NTC. hr session we’ll get into … How have you seen social media evolve over the past few years?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You may have noticed: Social media seems to be the talk of nonprofits for the past few years. A quick scan of nonprofit-focused publications and websites, as well as the session topics at nonprofit conferences, will confirm that organizations are interested in how to use social media. Nonprofits and Social Media?

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APRIL 12, 2011

I had a chance to spend time with Petri at SXSW this year where we talked about how Make-a-Wish Foundation of American is using social media as part of their digital strategy. His perspective storytelling and letting the Make-a-Wish brand roam free in the social space was impressive.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Those who are successful in social media are so because they have something to say/share and they use powerful platforms to reach as many as possible. Be who you are, share what you do, promote it through any and every channel you think possible, not because it’s trendy, but because there is power in people.

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JULY 6, 2011

With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your followers use at least one social network, right? With that in mind, here are 12 tips that will help you succeed no matter what social-networking site you apply them to. Creating a social-media listening dashboard helps as you get started.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Social media for social good is grassroots organizing, fundraising and impact in the digital world. Here’s 9 “social media for social good&# websites you should check out today. Jumo is another social media for social good platform that entered the mix in 2010.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Social media has revolutionized the way tech savvy arts and cultural organizations communicate. When checking out our Altru user’s social media pages, one garden caught my attention: Bok Tower Gardens. Sharing photos across social media garners a lot of attention for your page. Start a conversation.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Social media is all the rage, but does it actually help create real change in the world? Best Friends provides a valuable example of social media mobilizing people to take action in the real world. The folks at Best Friends Animal Society would answer with a resounding yes ! . Drive Action.

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APRIL 26, 2011

If you’ve been around the non-profit social media scene for any amount of time you’ve probably heard of (or even met) Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). After their session I got some time to talk with Danielle about the world of social media for non-profits.

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APRIL 11, 2011

She essentially runs all marketing and communications projects – including social and digital media work for her organization. What’s really interesting about Joelle’s work is that she helps build community through social media for the 155 overnight summer camps that the FJC supports across North America.

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MARCH 31, 2011

Help ) while also becoming COO for a technology startup that helps non-profits raise money through social media ( HelpAttack )! and how the future of online fundraising is heavily tied to peoples social networks. So new that we’re seeing many social media for social good platforms surfacing on a regular basis.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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JUNE 24, 2010

Our social media strategy for nonprofits series continues by taking a look at how the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network ( www.pancan.org ) uses social media to enhance their online efforts. This organization is dedicated to advancing research, supporting patients and creating hope for those affected by pancreatic cancer.

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APRIL 1, 2011

He goes by the name Hardly Normal and fights to put a face on homelessness by using the internet, social media and InvisiblePeople.TV (content can be intense) to share stories about real people battling with being out on the street. Mark Horvath is a passionate guy with an incredible story.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Using Social Media to Generate Buzz and Measureable Results. Social media has been all the rage for some time now. Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington helped prove the point that, if used effectively, social media can, in fact, product real results resulting in an ROI that any nonprofit would be proud of.

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APRIL 14, 2010

In my work with non-profit organizations across the country I’m often asked one of two questions regarding social media; “ Should we be using social media? ,” and “ How do we use social media successfully? ”.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Our social media strategy series continues with Mickey Gomez from the Volunteer Center Serving Howard County. How does social media help you ask? Their annual budget is approximately $150,000 and there are only two (2) full time employees. Needless to say they don’t have a lot of resources to pull from.

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JULY 22, 2009

As part of that rebranding effort they decided to be much more active in the social media world. Social media is now a key part of their online strategy. In the spirit of continuing to learn how nonprofits are using social media we spent some time with David Hylton from ChildFund.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For many organizations social media isn't simply a new medium to learn and manage, its also an exercise in control-or lack thereof. I often hear this reasoning for reluctence to utilizing social media by non-profits, espeically by those with an organized opposition and/or sensitive topics.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

During Blackbaud's 2009 Conference for Nonprofits , Melanie Mathos and I lead a two-part social media workshop. Part I of this pairing was a new session we developed called 50 Social Media Tactics Nonprofits Use to Meet Their Mission. It was a real blast delivering this content, and people seemed to react well to it.

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MAY 13, 2009

Recently we’ve been talking a lot about how social media can be used effectively in the nonprofit space and how social media tools can be leveraged to improve your web site so we thought to ourselves – what better way to help you see the value of social media for nonprofits than to give you the stage here at NetWits Think Tank.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Finally, it is a great example of using multimedia including social media to accomplish a goal. Secondly, I am a huge UNC Chapel Hill fan and the commercial includes Tyler Hansbrough , former UNC Tar Heel.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Are you struggling with how to use social media? Maybe you don’t even know what social media is yet? Or are you just beginning to explore how this new channel can help your nonprofit organization? We can help you.

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JUNE 22, 2009

The United Methodist Church recently launched a site with social media at its heart! What they’ve done is create a “social media mashup” – Google Friend Connect, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iLike and more. Their new site goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. Why’d they take this approach you ask?

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APRIL 6, 2009

So a few months back Chris Brogan started a series of “day in the life” portraits of fictional people that might use social media in their work. I thought to myself, ‘This is a great idea, but where is the portrait of the nonprofit professional?’ So I decided to try my hand at it myself. Thanks for the idea Chris!

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

President Barack Obama raised nearly $410 million dollars through individual contributions in 2008.

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JUNE 17, 2009

12for12k is a unique campaign that is driven primarily by social media. So far they are doing an incredible job, so I thought it would be beneficial to have them share a bit about their social media strategy with us. Their goal is to raise funds and awareness for 12 different charities during 2009.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

He’s going to share some of his wisdom related to cause marketing and social media with us today! He’s the Director of Cause and Event marketing at Boston Medical and has been working with nonprofits for 17 years.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

We try to highlight the work of nonprofits in the social media space regularly here and Jeff Hurt's nonprofit is a perfect fit! It sparks ideas, connects us to each other and eventually helps us get better. I’m sure you’ve experienced this phenomenon before? In the spirit of learning we’ve got Jeff Hurt with us this week!

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JULY 15, 2009

Social Media/Networking. Have you noticed that social media/networking sites are increasingly showing up in Google search results? We have been talking about Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) a bit here at NetWits lately so I thought I’d direct your attention to another dimension of the SEO game.

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JUNE 24, 2009

More recently they’ve been using social media to further their reach and strengthen their online communities. Find out how more about The Summer of Social Good and how LAF is changing the world with social media.

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JULY 29, 2009

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success.

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MAY 31, 2009

That said, we know that Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others are growing at astonishing rates. According to the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study released by NTEN , Email is still the “killer app” we all thought it was when it came out! Facebook reached 200 Million users according to Mark Zuckerberg.

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APRIL 16, 2010

We cover a couple cause marketing initiatives (Pepsi Refresh and Check in for Charity) that focus on a really interesting combination of location based social networking (i.e. We also touch on “getting started with social media” where Chris gives us his five tips for working with what you’ve already got.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

So I've been a little bit lax (well, a big bit lax) lately with my blog posts and I apologise for that. I've been busy over the last couple of months on various projects. Not least of which is the upcoming release of version 6.15 of Blackbaud NetCommunity - more on that soon.

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