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7 Techniques for Event Fundraising Success

NetWits

While about 55% of donations collected online will come the last 20 days before the event, participants need a head start to ensure online adoption and effective use of the tools. Participants are less likely to give up when they can call and get answers to their questions. On average, organizations set up online events about 5.5

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0

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Twitter at PBS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The questions from the audience, mostly general managers or programming producers - "What was your budget?" Go to the KCET's landing page for the show and you'll see them promoting the Twitter account,(but not with a Twitter badge streaming the actual tweets.) " and "How much time?" It makes them feel special.

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Social Media Burnout: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Give them badges, even xml-driven widgets that feed back to the world the actions that individual user has taken and the impact those actions have had" Steve's last comment on the post suggests that the seamless integration of all the tools is necessary, but also laments the lack of second wave adoption.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog. An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization.

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