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Your Ultimate Guide to 2024 Year-End Fundraising Campaign: 5 Principles for Success

Allegiance Group

In the crowded landscape of December giving, it’s all too common for nonprofits to blend in and struggle to stand out in a sea of sameness. The extensive social networks of these individuals can quickly expand your reach and bring new donors in, all because they believe in the good your team uniquely does in the world.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.” Hanafi, AhmEd Hamaza, Chema Gargouri, and Nada Hamzeh who I had the pleasure of working with closely on the e-mediat project shared their ideas – especially a sense that training is so important to building networks.

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And if your organization finds itself in the middle of groundswell or if there is a major news event or a public relations crisis happens and it is being discussed on Twitter or other social media spaces, your CEO can join it without having to get up to speed. This is a good example of a "Blended profile.".

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ASTC Recap: Questions, Colors, and Reflective Research

Museum 2.0

I shared examples of question frameworks designed for specific types of visitor experiences: personal framing of exhibits (as in Facing Mars), private sharing (like the Storycorps booths), public dialogue (as in the Advice exhibit), and so on. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. There are communities for everything online, and chances are you can find a group that offers a good blend of related interest and current non-visitation to your museum.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. 6: Leverage the power of social proofing. 6: Leverage the power of social proofing. My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ).

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Groundswell Book Club Part 2: Talking

Museum 2.0

The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. Groundswell profiles the story of the Blendtec, the blender company that stumbled into a viral video explosion with their " Will it Blend? Do you want to raise brand awareness?

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