Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

One of my longtime flickr contacts, an artist named Darlene, just sent me a note that when her paycheck arrives, 10% is going to the Sharing Foundation. So, in return, I'm plugging her cause - Life in Africa and this cause. " And, she has volunteered to help me with my Sharing Foundation America's Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. Meanwhile, I am so proud that he put the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge widget on his blog. Wanna Kahn is a Cambodian college student studying engineering in Vietnam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0, Think we can do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To There has already been over $19,000 for the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. Updated (1/28/08). raised through the unselfish giving of over 700 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

All that to day I'm behind two or three days with saying thank you to a couple of friends for helping out with the America's Giving Challenge. She also pointed to my facebook cause recruitment video. Darren Barefoot also write a post about our America's Giving Challenge efforts. Call To Action. Are you a blogger?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I've been following Eugene's photos on flickr for about two years now. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge. Community Technology Foundation. I don't know how this one missed by ego feeds. He has a great eye.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. He contributed to the Facebook Cause and also to Global Giving page if that icon below is you Adam. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 28, 2009

I've compiled some Super Bowl fundraiser ideas, celebrity events, and corporate cause marketing campaigns below. Corporations are gearing up their cause marketing as well: Pittsburgh-based FedEx Ground and the Pittsburgh Steelers created the Towels for Troops campaign in conjunction with Military Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He used social media ( blog , vlog , wiki , flickr , couchsurfing , twitter , myspace , dopplr , and facebook ) to harness the collective knowledge of the globe, and reported weekly on seven topics of freedom. I was offered (unknown to me) a plate of fried ants and it looks like Noneck ate some frog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. Neff from the America Cancer Society quipped during our panel at SXSW, "Twitter meetups just to meet are so 2008. As my colleague David J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Christine.net writes about recommendations engines. You know, I'll have what she's having).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr. How To Share the Social Media Workload in Your Organization. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? " I'm sure we could find a few examples in America and elsewhere. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr!

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application. Carie says HSUS has raised $20k through the Causes app, though I’m not finding that in my search of Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

Feeding America has launched a Causes campaign, sponsored by Kellogg's. It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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MAY 13, 2011

Flickr: Jazzyblue TR This week, NTEN members have been busy as always - with a focus on new reports, research, and lots of reflections! Avi Kaplan has a great round up of tips, resources and examples of road trips for a cause ! Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Check it out !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. I think the concept is even bigger and we connect it to using social media for cause related marketing. Cheeky Geeky.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you. Where maybe they’re not, you know, super preferential to a specific cause or anything like that, or maybe the opposite.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

A number of applications have been developed to organize causes on Facebook. " Obama's Organizing for America Page reposted it too. A simple way to harnass collective action and simultaneously show the strength of your support is by asking supporters to tag their photos (typically on Flickr) to create a photo pool.

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