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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

If your nonprofit does advocacy, you know that with this work, there are almost always consistent patterns of crisis management leading to later periods of denouement and down time. Advocacy is a long-term calling.  Check out our last installment here! Here’s what they said. Learn more at MESG.marketing !

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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. In fact, behavioral science should inform the ways you recruit and engage supporters as well as raise awareness for your cause. She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience.

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Who Is Your Mayor? Guest Post by Farra Trompeter, Big Duck

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of Foursquare’s first badges was the “ gym rat “–awarded to users who check into a gym at least 10 times in 30 days. Some people throw parties just to attract 50+ people to unlock the swarm badge or visit the same place again and again to become its mayor. What do your check-ins, tips, to-dos, badges, etc. say about you?

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Sunny the Seal Melts Hearts on MySpace - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Did the badges and portable YouTube videos help?

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CharityVillage? Research: Game On: Charities Toy with New Ideas for Online Engagement

AFP Blog

One well-known example is the geo-location application Foursquare, where users earn badges and virtual rewards for "check-ins” online. Advocacy, raising awareness, and membership-building are only a few of the possible social good objectives for games like these.

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Ask Your Lawmaker Widget

NTEN

There's so much potential for fundraising, advocacy, and general outreach. . A lot of you have probably heard about the recent success of a Toronto blogger who combined a fundraising widget from Chip-In with the networking power of Twitter to raise over $14k in about 2 days.

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Advocacy Widgets: 18seconds CFL Summit in San Jos??, CA

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. Now, this is a cool use of a widget! I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. The 18seconds.org CFL Summit is taking place on February 22, 2007 and will be held at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jos??,

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