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How To Increase Board Fundraising Without Having To Ask for Money

Bloomerang

Use the power of a story to highlight the organization’s accomplishments I am a huge believer that board members don’t need to be subject matter experts to be good fundraisers. Board members can practice telling the story of one person helped by the organization, or the story of how they came to be on the board.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. Ivan's story adds an excellent example to accompany these resource links. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Wordpress Extras: My Favorites

Amy Sample Ward

A recent comment from Ichi (working on social media for good in Japan w/ SocialCompany.org ) asked after the tools I was using on this blog to bring in comments via Twitter. Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog.

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Say So What To Your Data Three Times

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The referral traffic came from Reddit. So What? The news piece that was on the top of the Reddit site was about the server outages for major online services. The comments were discussing what people did when Reddit was done. Drills down into the referral traffic – where did it come from?

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones.

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Getting on The List

NetWits

The latest on Reddit. Story that’s repeated endlessly on cable news because a producer thought it would get good ratings. Comment on a blog post you wrote three days ago. Take a look over the list and you’ll see what I mean … Email from your boss. Personal note from a good friend. A trending topic on Twitter.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” He started off with the story of Chelsea Welch and Alois Bell to illustrate how civic life has changed in the last 5 years. Louise and Chelsea Welch was on the wait staff. ” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated.