Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). I know I read about it in someone's blog this week, but now I've forgotten whose so my apologies for not giving a blogger out there credit for the find). The project will continue through the spring and into early summer.

Blogger 40

Blogger Arts Change Azerbaijan 40

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Microgiving is when a person donates small, seemingly insignificant amounts of money to a cause or a nonprofit. Many microgiving websites make it outrageously simple to donate, and with mobile giving on the rise, we can definitely expect an increase in the number of smaller donations. So, go ahead - think small! Have an iPhone?

Time 96

Time Giving Arizona Profile 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

For the donation information, I pulled an excel spreadsheet from Razoo platform and analyzed donation amounts, sources, and weak/strong ties. 128 donors with 45% giving at the suggested minimum donation of $25, 43% gave more than $25 minimum, and 12% gave under the $25 minimum gift amount. Fundraiser.

Social Media 129

Social Media Online Learning Fundraising 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! With my compressed schedule for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign , I shouldn't be promoting the t-shirt option, let alone making a donation to something else but I really want a Creative Commons t-shirt for the suitcase campaign.

Cambodia 50

Cambodia Blogher Blogger Contest 50

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. I should say that I'm trying to encourages as many people to make their donation through Global Giving. There's a lot of reasons for that. Thanks again to Adam and Mark.

Remix 50

Remix Kiva Blogger Global 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation?

Giving 50

Giving Hunger Charity Blogger 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. A key driver of donations was Facebook, where users uploaded 2.4 Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding.

Platform 50

Platform Giving Fundraising Game 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Joseph Jaffe offered bloggers a review copy of his boo, Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership. The video blogging community also donated some video cameras for the school too.). Congratulations to Chas Offutt, Social Media Evangelist for American Rivers.

Conversation 50

Conversation Classroom Skype Contest 50

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Moreover, the company reports that people who are 35 years and older make up the fastest growing user demographic, which corresponds to the demographic mostly likely to make a donation online. Prior to encouraging your supporters to create impact through donations, make sure to engage your fans and supporters in other ways.

Facebook 99

Facebook Money Raise Strategy 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ???

Case Study 50

Case Study ROI Social Media Contest 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

Cambodia 51

Cambodia Blogher Children America 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far.

Nptech 50

Nptech Social Fundraising Plugin 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. When I heard about this story, I was curious about Drew's tatoos. Steve's been a huge supporter of the Sharing Foundation. Thank you Steve!

Causes 50

Causes Twitter Charity Contest 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek. I just did).

Madagascar 50

Madagascar Disaster Green Help 50

Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Online Giving: Number of online donations per month, number of new sustaining gifts per month, average online gift size, common referring sources for online gifts (email appeal, web content, external sites, etc.). Who are the target audiences?

Online 71

Online Tips Calendar Test 71

See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Go to THIS PAGE right now and donate and make a big difference. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

America 45

America Challenge Cambodia Giving 45

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

Effective 41

Effective Blogher Technorati Blogger 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated.

Analysis 87

Analysis Twitter Giving Lesson 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Advertising Article: Video blogger Steve Garfield recently shared an article with me called " Ten Lessons for Marketers About Viral Video. There was also a follow up post here. This week there are two more articles with advice that isn't sleezy, one from a for-profit perspective and the other an nonprofit perspective.

YouTube 50

YouTube Video Tips Lesson 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

If anyone has been holding off on donating to the Sharing Foundation Campaign don't wait any longer. There is just 36 hours left to the end of the challenge and the campaign is in the lead by 16 donations. They have a good chance of securing 50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. PS: Beth did not ask me to do this.

Nptech 50

Nptech Help United States Cambodia 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They use social media to achieve goals of increased transparency and increased donations of blood, time, and money. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. In that order.

Story 72

Story Learning Organization Metrics 72

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Gretchen has donated her time to numerous causes including Relay for Life, Girls on the Run, Rebuilding Together and just recently became involved with the local land trust. Try as we might to convince ourselves that donations will flood in once we launch our crowdfunding campaign, in today’s world, that’s not likely to happen.

Results 28

Results Tips Nevada Attention 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. Where's the conference tag?

Netsquared 50

Netsquared Nptech Summary Project 50

See3

MARCH 27, 2008

So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path. Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. My take-aways from his session: “viral to what end?”

NTEN 45

NTEN Web Case Study Stumbleupon 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech YouTube Cancer 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

For nonprofits, that tracking donations from social media engagement. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . In other words, that you can monetize the process of engagement. The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

Public 50

Public Metrics ROI Chapter 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 See below). Details are here.

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

Cambodia 108

Cambodia Contest Children 108

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.)

Stats 100

Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.).

Method 40

Method Charity Build Meme 40

See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story.

America 40

America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40

Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Participated in our online contests such as photo competitions, etc. Donated money during urgent appeals – even if it was $10. Shared our advocacy actions with their friends and colleagues on social networks. Shared personal stories with us about how climate change was affecting their communities. It’s subjective.

Influence 77

Influence Measure Social Network Offline 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

Unfortunately, many don't have regular Internet access (or credit cards) so their support doesn't count towards the contest. He made a donation to the campaign. Even though my donation is not quite big, but at least it is counted as one. There's also a whole village of bloggers helping with this cause lead by Michele Martin.

Cambodia 50

Cambodia Foundation Share Help 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. How it worked.

Canada 50

Canada Lesson Twitter Learning 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project.

Cambodia 50

Cambodia Social Network Campaign Learning 50

See3

MAY 11, 2007

But your job in the nonprofit is to make it easy, to give them the tools to tell the story in the way you want it told, to have compelling photos and media materials that they can use, to easily provide links for others to donate. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

FAQ 40

FAQ Newsletter Copyright 40