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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s an excellent example from National Colon Cancer Advocates, members of the Fight Colorectal Cancer community advocacy day in Washington, DC. ” Other amplifier tools include JustCoz and Gaggleamp. Be sure to have physical signage at the event that encourages people to tweet with the event hashtag.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

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For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Hold interviews. Is there a long-term need for your nonprofit, or could the issue be solved with a smaller-scale fundraising campaign or project?

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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I was thrilled to be interviewed by Steve along with many other nonprofit data nerds, for his new book, Data Driven Nonprofits. He was kind enough to send me an advanced copy and it is definitely a must read. Along the way, I interviewed more than 20 nonprofit experts from a wide variety of organizations.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

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We’re having a 5K/bike ride/walk this weekend … it’s for a good cause” is not as newsworthy as “couple to marry while running in a 5K for breast cancer research, this is why…”. Get to know the alternative and “emerging” news outlets and most influential bloggers (known as “influencers”) in your area. Share these.

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Transmedia — Making Change Across Mediums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mark is an e-activist who interviews homeless men and women, and shares their stories across every digital medium he can find — YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, you name it. Watch to see her, social media influencers, and Mark’s friend network talk about how Twitter and Facebook are changing the game for do-gooders across all issues.

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The Power of Convincing

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“For example, we were asked to work on President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot. His team wanted to promote universal health care as one of the paths toward curing cancer. “We We’ve all known someone who has been affected by cancer. We need to help cancer victims receive improved care. It’s important to stop talking here.

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