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GivingTuesday Prep: Everything You Need for 2023

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Many organizations use GivingTuesday as a social media campaign to increase fundraising and spread awareness for their cause. Once you know what worked and what didn’t, you can start looking at the current trends in fundraising to create the best GivingTuesday campaign to maximize your donor acquisition and retention.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

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Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

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Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. And what does this trend mean for nonprofits? Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

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It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Is that responsible social change? The issue is complex.

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A First Look at Jumo

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Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. In the very early days of the website they had visitors answer a series of questions about interests, skills, and cause activities. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. So What and Who Cares.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

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At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?

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Internet Fame and the True Impact of Influence

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You may be aware that there is a big debate going on in the social media blogosphere about "influence". We're all familiar with the mantra that we should be out there leveraging influencers in our communities in order to get the word out about our causes, brands or services. But hold on.