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Transmedia — Making Change Across Mediums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. But simply put, cross-platform campaigns are the future of documentary film, and issue advocacy. ” Enjoy.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Diverse Goals.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email - 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)

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The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email - 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)

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On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women. Conventional wisdom has always said that nonprofits should focus on either service or advocacy, but not both. So what should nonprofits be doing?

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… But, take it offline, too. . Look how Selfies With AEDs saw their social media ambassador was posting from the city where a partner organization is located and took the opportunity to tag the partner (and share their advocacy campaign in the process).