Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. You might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global. Additionally, check out TechSoup's recap of Nonprofits Live: Gaming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. Please blog amoung yourselves."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

meshugavi recommended the Google Mobile app for nonprofit staff to help them follow news and blogs using Google Reader. rickplus3 wrote that the Plus 3 Network, "turns every workout into a fitness fundraiser," and they have an iPhone app in development. Fundraising parties, trade shows, investment networks, etc."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Details here. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

He does mentioned that it takes an online promotion strategy to build an audience and that blogs should be part of the strategy. Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Some reactions here.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Emily Riley from Forrester Research and Beth Kanter from Beth’s Blog both gave great presentations that really complimented each other. They have a blog and they moderate comments because they don't want to publish any racist comments. Here's more two round ups I did of nonprofit blogging policies: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were so many new platforms and applications that provided tools for everything from communications to fundraising, outreach to development, and much more. The fundraising campaign that will probably never be replicated, the citizen engagement effort that relied on a whirlwind of perfect timing and serendipity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Social Warfare is a WordPress plugin that adds visually compelling social share buttons to your website or blog. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users understand the premise of HTML and can make simple edits to WordPress or MailChimp generated HTML code.

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