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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

From case studies to best practices to user tips for implementing technology in your work, our guest bloggers provide important resources for the entire nonprofit sector. This week, they've donated some great contributions about board management and monthly giving. Thanks for being a member Christine!

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Every day I carve out at least 30 minutes to read articles by some of my favorite nonprofit practioner bloggers filled with useful new data and thoughtful analyses of fundraising, online advocacy and social media. To the Point: Get Ready to Rummage Time to toss what’s not working and make a new plan for 2010. Stop flying blind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

A Cycling Blogger @ fatcyclist sent the Manager of Lance Armstrong’s racing team @ johanbruyneel a resume. You can follow the story at www.fatcyclist.com , or you can just go join the people making it happen by donating here or here. joking) as if he were applying for a job. You The challenge is continuing to grow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi asked Jadudi’s favorite blogger, Jackson Biko, to publish the story on his blog , and developed a social media crowdfunding strategy to engage the public and drive traffic to the blog. This money was donated via MPESA (mobile money) contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo helps connects people with issues and organizations on the first rung of the ladder of engagement, but the challenge will be how to cultivate relationships to bring people up that ladder to higher levels of engagement and involvement – from following and connecting to making donations to making change offline.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Go to THIS PAGE right now and donate and make a big difference. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

NEWS I've published 12 new WE Volunteer posts since the last Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Six Holiday Volunteering Ideas WE Volunteer Twitter Giveaway: 29 Gifts by Cami Walker Donate Your Gently Used Items to Nonprofits Volunteering for Our Planet: How Are You Volunteering for the Environment? Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. and Craft Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Both women, along with Lisa Sonora Beam and myself, are planning a 2010 creative women entrepreneur retreat together. TranquiliT is an eco-fashion line created by entrepreneur, yogini, blogger, podcaster, author, and do-gooder Kimberly Wilson. I am a big fan of Kimberly's work, and am happy to support any of her many ventures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My Cambodian friend, Mongkol , a blogger that I met five years ago when he came to the US to do his graduate studies, wrote us a note to hand to our taxi driver. The younger children are learning keyboard skills using the OLPC computers donated to the Sharing Foundation. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. A key driver of donations was Facebook, where users uploaded 2.4 Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

• women donate twice as many to charities as men do? The She Spot: Best Practices in Marketing to Women Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 2 pm EST. We have a limited amount of webinar lines, so please take a moment to sign up now. Did you know that: • women control two-thirds of all wealth in the U.S?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The campaign’s facts were also highly criticized by a lot of the media and bloggers. The American Red Cross followers on Twitter began using the #gettngslizzerd hashtag to promote blood drive donations. If your organization can quickly take ownership of your mistake or failure, you can diffuse the situation before it implodes.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Over 180 people with over 635,000 total followers signed up to participate by authorizing Epic Change to post via their Twitter account using JustCoz , an online relay system that lets you donate a tweet a day to help raise awareness for causes that matter to you. Information for bloggers. Infrastructure.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Once a year, Blog Action Day unites bloggers around the world to focus on an important global issue and to create a dialogue that transcends international borders. Author: Jill Ward. They also added and mobilized 2,265 Facebook fans during a 14 day period — 155 percent increase from start of campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Many other nonprofit and do good bloggers helped promote the contest. Additionally, the Advisory Board will donate $1 million to the nominated charities of its choice. Would you prefer these contests simply go away in 2010 – if so, what might replace them?". I'm sure I've missed something.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) If made publicly available, who would actually go looking for them?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path. Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. My take-aways from his session: “viral to what end?”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

In this economy, we shouldnt be surprised that a big chunk of these tiny organizations reliant on donations have simply disappeared. And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. Out with the old, in with the new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I will also meet the bloggers who have become my friends over the years and do a little bit of geeking out – perhaps learning some tips and techniques from them. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results. I resisted using the title of “report card”. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. If someone's abusing your policy, use blocking features.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

On blogging and blogger outreach : They both moderate every single comment on the blog (they recommend not to allow auto-posting), and someone responds personally to each comment. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story. Shana Glickfield of Issue Dynamics Inc. ,

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University recently distributed the results of a 2010 study, and all of the above were proven false. There is also a free executive summary of the entire Giving USA 2010 report at this site. ^ [1] Giving USA Spotlight, Issue 3, 2010, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University/GivingUSA Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 28, 2010

World Go Vegan Week (October 24-31, 2010) seems like a perfect time to highlight the sixth contributor to my series of guest posts by bloggers talking about how they have fun and do good. And finally, 17 years after going vegetarian, I finally lived up to my own ideals and became a vegan. We're talking snail mail here.the Dark Ages.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. conference in 2010. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers. We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

I have a rough time donating to nonprofits. In 2010, Carlo made a commitment - to give to a different charity each day for an entire year. In the past year, with the help of donations from his fans, Carlo has donated over $4,000 to charities across the nation. Well, that’s just what Carlo Garcia did.

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See3

MAY 11, 2007

But your job in the nonprofit is to make it easy, to give them the tools to tell the story in the way you want it told, to have compelling photos and media materials that they can use, to easily provide links for others to donate. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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