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I’m Doing Giving Tuesday Not Black Friday: One Week To Go!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Please join me in signing the pledge on the site to confirm that you’ll spend that day investing in community and family, rather than stuff. And, on the following Tuesday, I will participate, support, and enjoy “ Giving Tuesday.” You can read more about #GivingTuesday in USA Today : and the Harvard Business Review Blog.

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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

NTEN

As I read case studies, blog posts and participate in sessions, I imagine replacing the term "social media" with "direct mail" or "email marketing." For example, you can choose to pledge 10 cents a tweet, or $0.25 You decide which nonprofit, how much you're willing to pledge per month, and HelpAttack! Not as much as you'd think.

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#GivingTuesday Lights Up Generosity (and Time Square)!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Online , nearly 3,500 Social Media Ambassadors have pledged to support #GivingTuesday. According to research from Blackbaud and reported by Steve McLaughlin on the NpEngage blog, “ Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012. My experience as a fundraising champion for NTEN was positive.

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Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It also gets kudos from NTEN’s satisfaction survey (it came in third, after CiviCRM and Salesforce.) Just came across a deal-breaking feature-not-yet-implemented in CiviCRM and I’m wondering if it’s easily implemented in Sugar (long-term pledges to a capital campaign). 2 admin 04.20.08

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Open content business models

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There was one interesting model was asking for pledges, and if the pledges got up to a certain amount, the content would be produced. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack.

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Nonprofits: Keep Calm and Mobile Friendly

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My blog passed the test! By 2012, about 20% of my audience was reading my blog through a mobile interface, either tablet or smartphone. I had started to receive emails from readers complaining that my blog did not look good on this mobile device or that mobile device. It defeats the purpose.”

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Successfully Going Mobile

NTEN

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. For example, a bike-a-thon in Texas has a Ride for Life app so that people can keep track of pledges and fundraising, see where others are, etc. Mobile application giving will grow, 1:4 gave vs preferred. There's currently very few applications.

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