Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wisconsin Rising trailer and Kickstarter Campaign from samayfield on Vimeo. And, this month, Sam is raising money to support a new documentary called Wisconsin Rising on the kickstarter platform. I am currently raising funds for a story that I believe needs to be told about the 2011 people’s uprising in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Two Examples of Nonprofit Social Media That Will Make You Smile (and learn a best practice or two)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the summer, the local humane society in Appleton, Wisconsin shared a story of one of its dogs, a chocolate lab named Hank, who was available for adoption, but had done something very wrong. . #2: Use Transmedia Storytelling to Share Stories That Inspires InspireAction.

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New Organizing Institute: Training on March 9th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wisconsin Now, and the League of Young Voters participating. NOI's next online organizing and tech training, coming up March 7-9 (. The training is shaping up to be amazing -- with over 50. organizations including NAACP , Sierra Club, ONE. A critical piece is. supporting the implementation of the. training in participants' day-to-day work.

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I'll Comment for Food Donations, Ten Cents for Woman's Shelter, and Other Interesting Social Media Charity Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gallaga said he got an e-mail from a teacher thanking him and telling him that the money was being used to buy AV equipment at a low-income school in Wisconsin. Gallaga cites a specific example of giving money to DonorsChoose.org, a company that connects students and teachers to people who would like to donate. Interesting twist on "impact."

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31 Days To Better Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SmokeFree Wisconsin. I discovered some wonderful nonprofit BlogHers by checking out the bloghers who participating in this learning experiment. Christine Martell. Frances McLean. Laura White. Nancy Ritter. Sue Waters. The Indian Blogger. Cammy Bean

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next segment was a presentation and discussion about the process and value of establishing a social media policy from Sara Eskrich Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. I’m going to devote a whole blog post this presentation because it was so rich, so stay tuned.

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Balance the Spontaneous and Strategic of Social Media: Newsjacking and Obamacare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sarah Eskrich, health policy analyst for Wisconsin Council for Children and Families , shared that they had prepared their top ten list for their blog which led to a huge spike in blog traffic and even heavier traffic for the few days before. Almost all these organizations reporting getting more likes, shares, and comments on this content.