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Facebook: Is it Worth your Nonprofit’s Time?

NetWits

Idealware who surveyed over 500 nonprofit staff members about their Facebook usage and goals may have answers to some of the questions organizations have been seeking. I was surprised to see these results because getting people to attend offline events is not a low barrier. She is also the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2’s Frogloop blog.

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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

Meanwhile, bloggers Leigh Duncan and Deb Ng were starting a grassroots effort to raise awareness and support for the Japan disaster too. The original goal was to raise $10,000 within 5-days. A few hours later, we quickly found each other through Jessica Lin and unified our efforts as SXSWcares. What factors contributed to the success?

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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations. The goal is to get more than 200 nonprofits to participate and then raise at least $1 million for them. How do you think offline or online crowdfunding will affect your favorite causes in 2013?

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

These 5 steps assume that your organization has already used a process to evaluate your audience and your goals and chosen tools and strategies that match the audience and organizational goals. Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics.

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Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today

The Modern Nonprofit

Her goal is to see more nonprofits become true “sustainable social benefit organizations”– those that help people be the change they want to see in their communities and the world. If you’re not afraid of getting into the nitty-gritty of network building, both online and offline, this is the blog for you. FUTURE FUNDRAISING NOW.

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20 Juicy Blogging Tips

Have Fun - Do Good

I thought that all of you who are bloggers, or who want to start a blog, might find them useful too. Build relationships online and offline. Create goals you can measure. If you have goals, you’ll find the time. How much time do you want to give to your blogging goals and dreams each week? What moves you?

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. The goal was $1,000, or one dollar per follower. It was a fairly arbitrary goal and I had no expectations. Sure, I did not reach my goal.