Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. How much good will is generated by those contributed and by the winners of the contest whose works will be posted on the Nature Conservancy’s FB and Tumblr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Gear Up For Giving from the Case Foundation is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. Stop Complaining About Cause Fatigue!

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MAY 20, 2009

YouTube just launched the Video for Change program to highlight the most pressing social causes the YouTube community cares about. The new programs hopes to foster the connections between individual activists on the site and nonprofits. YouTube plans to launch the Video for Change campaigns four times a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2009, the organization launched the United State Spay Day Photo Contest in 2009 as one part of their overall effort that included broadcast media and other social media outreach efforts as well as offline event. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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