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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

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2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. 2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional.