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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steroids). Also bear in mind that charity:water had been aware of the event plans long before any formal announcements were made. Each localized event is putting its own unique flair to the event.

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

I approached all of these fields with one question in mind: "What can I steal?" And museums have really good content--content related to the core interests of niche groups who aggregate online. I've written about COSI before , but on Monday I focused on their strategic partnership with WOSU , the local public broadcasting station.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." A number of the experts were not optimistic about a connected world at all.

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Trends in Sustainer Giving – Key Findings from the 2019 donorCentrics Sustainer Summit

Connection Cafe

We recently held the fifth annual Blackbaud Target Analytics donorCentrics Sustainer Summit, hosted by WGBH in Boston on March 23 and 24, 2019, the question on everyone’s mind was simple: following significant gains in donors in FY2017, were we able to retain these surge donors in FY2018? The answer, in short, was yes. billion in FY2018.

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Creating Your Organization's Social Media Strategy Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. They also produced this infographic about how World Leaders tweet.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. We initially planned to provide a small number of live streams of the main sessions, as our local conference host said they could broadcast to about 50 streams.