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Selfies for Good?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause?

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Member Round Up: Tedx, Chase Community Giving grants, new services, just another quiet holiday week.

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Flickr: Scott Beale Biking to work last week was like riding through that town in the Andromeda Strain: t here were no other commuters, no car exhaust to cough on while waiting at lights. For better or worse, it was not a zombie apocolypse, but rather a quiet holiday week.

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Right now in digital charity

Connection Cafe

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. Use social media to mobilise and engage, not just take money.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. American Cancer Society saw a 10:1 return on investment from this effort. For whatever reason, they’ve fallen off from your base.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. So is giving money.”. Like GoFundMe, Booster lets you to raise money for any cause by designing and selling your own t-shirt. Of course things have changed a lot. “No, No, No,” I protested.

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Trick or Tweet? Some Halloween Social Media Fun for A Good Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was taking a trip down memory lane through my flickr stream and a search on the word "Halloween" and realized that 30 years ago today I had my first date with my husband!    When I was kid, our folks let us collect candy, but I also remember those orange boxes and collecting money for Unicef. t know before.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer. Do their follow-up e-newsletters simply ask for more money, or do they have nice balance of informational and fundraising content? Since then very few nonprofits have launched their own stations, so the post may have been a bit before its time.