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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors Guest Post By Geri Stengel, Ventureneer. Note from Beth: We know that social media can bring in the small dollar donors, but what about larger gifts? Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need to add Cambodia's voice to the global conversation happening on video blogs. I set up a series of compression tests and plan to see if play at all while in Cambodia. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why. Note the cameras are very inexpensive. The compression is high. That's not gonna work.

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Networked Nonprofit Update: Royalty Check Sent to Sharing Foundation, London Event, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, while I am delighted with the response to book , I’m even more pleased that the book is able to help young people in Cambodia. It’s made think about how far social fundraising has come in the last four years. Sharing knowledge, social media, and supporting young people in Cambodia.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Help Me Send Leng Sopharath Back To College in Good Health!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two years ago, my family and I made a commitment to sponsor Leng Sopharath, a young woman from Cambodia, for her college education through the Sharing Foundation 's education program. I'm headed off to Seattle to speak at Gnomedex and hope to test the power of integrated offline/online strategies. Any advice?)

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Networked Nonprofit in Boston: A Story of Contrasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. We met face-t0-face at a social media event in 2008, but that was the only time I had interacted her face-to-face. One of the reasons we wrote the book is that we felt it was important to put a flag in the ground at the point in time.

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Nedspace Co-Working Space in Portland, Oregan will send three Cambodians to college if.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.