Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

It is a Facebook application that I can click on and it takes over to the web site campaign where I can click and their sponsor donates.19 Here's what I like the campaign design: It's easy and makes me feel good. I did use my facebook bookmarklet to share the campaign web site page. 19 cents to the program. close to $250,000. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Lisa Canter has brought the fundraising campaign for Leng Sopharath to the 50% mark! Thank you Lisa for your contribution and writing about the campaign too ! Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. As of today, contributors have helped me raise $381 towards the $750 goal.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

This exciting event will feature inspirational introductions from GoInspireGo and PhotoPhilanthropy , a screening of the top story submissions received throughout the campaign, and an awards ceremony honoring the winning stories with some awesome prizes. Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

I'm pulling together all my notes and will post reflections about all the campaign shortly! Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Katya Andresen at the Nonprofit Marketing Blog gave me a guest spot to write about the campaign and solicit advice from colleagues here.

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JUNE 16, 2010

This session focuses on strategies and case studies for creating successful community-driven media, events and campaigns. Attendees can join a tour of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life or learn how to use digital storytelling and Facebook for quick and easy updates to keep connected to supporters. Room: 1471.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For example, let’s say you’re planning a storytelling campaign. If supporters find out that a story you featured in a campaign wasn’t actually about a real person the organization served, this could quickly erode trust. goals acronym). One goal you could attach to it is to attract a certain number of new donors.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The events are designed to be a forum for ideas, discussion, and action to execute technology-based projects or campaigns. Check out the following articles from across the TechSoup Global network: Discover apps that are incorporating gaming dynamics into a fundraising or social good campaign. Gaming for Good Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. Now this should set the stage for an interesting debate!

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60) Search « New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted | Main | Social Actions: How to Pitch Yourself in Two Minutes » Wednesday Jun 11 2008 Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 11:52AM | by Hatef Yamini Campaigning online. I will now give you the plain and simple answer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

GreenTech's TeleGreen Your Work campaign is underway. From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One). EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Sage is giving away fundraising software. Nonprofit Commons is opening a new island. We're all excited for NTC. It's time to vote! TechSoup Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Click HERE to join Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations.

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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. And if your organization is already incorporating gaming into your campaigns, please tell us about it in the comments. Gamify Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2006

STAND UP is global campaign to set an official Guinness World Record for the greatest number of people to STAND UP Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). STAND UP Events are happening all over the world, including Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. More information here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. s America I Believe In campaign that seeks to restore America???s government???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. She is the first to contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. We met, I think, through CP Squared and Nancy White.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

And speaking about using flickr to promote nonprofit causes ,Britt also points us to a new campaign to convince to the auto industry to improve fuel efficiency and eliminate greehouse gasses by 2020 called Jump Start Ford. There is also a podcast interview with Jeska Linden from Linden Labs, creators of Second Life.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The My Barack Obama community was built around Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. community was built around a series of videos Amber Lee Ettinger made to support Obama’s campaign. Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Most recently, I've approached contacts in my LinkedIn for personal fundraising campaigns. And, on New Year's Eve, while I was madly working on the Sharing Foundation fundraising campaign , I found her LinkedIn invitation in my email box. Electronic Resume: It's an easy to keep my resume online and be able to point to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

He mentions the Leng Sopharath Campaign -- he was a contributor) He also talks about Nonprofits and Second Life. Paul Lamb pinged me to let me know about a segment called Nonprofits of the Future where he is interviewed by John Powers and explores how new social web tools are transforming nonprofits. (He

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. " Findhabeas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign. The Top Five Ways smart people are using twitter. Good discussion in the comments too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You were key architect of the Frozen Pea Fund campaign, can you give me a summary of strategy and what you think made it work? So after our initial campaign, when we raised almost $10,000 in about eight weeks, we pulled back and then began planning for sustainability. What didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Heather Gardner-Madras is a designer and strategist for progressive nonprofit campaigns and also writes for the Idealware blog. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Rachel Weidinger.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. Examples: Climate Concern's Group and the ONE Campaign's Groups. That's "me" above in a ONE campaign shirt. • Because Yahoo! Discuss issues and events.

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OCTOBER 26, 2007

This past Wednesday (October 24), CBS aired an episode of CSI: NY in which a killer uses Second Life to attract and hunt down her victims. The episode was a cliff-hanger, and viewers were invited to log on to a special CSI:NY-themed island in Second Life to continue the hunt for the murderer.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. The campaign. Another good use of social bookmarking sites is to create group resource lists for collaborative bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. You can read more about the campaign on their blog. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Seo campaigns - 90 days in advance of your busiest season. Joyce Bettencourt is a talented print and digital designer who also is doing some incredible work in Second Life. Tommy Vallier (And, yes you can still contribute to the Cambodian college campaign!). Google looks at it and thinks its value. Here's the slides.

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