Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Typically launched by an social media savvy individual, who cares deeply about a charity or Cause, and these campaigns use platforms like Twitter in an unique way to raise money for that charity from their network. I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Thank you Steve!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They use social media to achieve goals of increased transparency and increased donations of blood, time, and money. Key points: Relationship building lays groundwork for future campaigns to raise time, money, and blood. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals. The Red Cross has overcome these hurdles. In that order.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Flickr makes it easy to get started! Balderdash! Or the Women's Museum. That sounds about right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? t spend money on online marketing unless its tied to a donation, advo, or other list building campaign. youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? Also helps for communicating with UGC contestants and winners. trackable Raise awareness ???

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In case you missed it, See3 staff have been guest-blogging on Care2 's Frogloop NTENny Beth Kanter captures online crowdsourcing, of a kind (Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg) this week. " GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2008

Raise the amount of money you've been assigned. Here are a handful of ideas to get you started: In her article, 10 Fun and Great Fund-Raising Ideas for Your Workplace , Josienita Borlongan says that having a Pink Ballerina Hippo Costume Fund-Raising Contest has been very successful for her.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Again, if it's built with public money, the public has the right to use it. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good. Participatory. Collaborative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

So much of the real-estate space in nonprofit rags is devoted to a) our own salaries; b) how to raise money; or c) what nifty new accounting software we should buy. If you are a visual/spatial type, check out their route on a Wayfaring map and their flickr stream. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. And, yes they did !

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Define your goals: Are you looking to find volunteers, direct activists, recruit talent, or raise money? Hold contests. If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. Ask questions. Use quizzes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? A: The Convio benchmark numbers exclude offline giving. This will give you a more accurate picture.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? A: The Convio benchmark numbers exclude offline giving. This will give you a more accurate picture.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. I provided the Web 2.0 The biggest question that came up again and again was: how much does it cost?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. or to start their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! How can they not see that the only logical thing to do is give us scads of money?! ABOUT THE #FIXMYPITCH CONTEST. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! Are your creepy pitches spooking your supporters? Kids to pick up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

People seem to forget, but there are actually two ways to get great returns on your investment: you can either have fabulously successful projects, or you can have projects that took so little time to implement that any return you get is free money. Need a good idea how to refresh your donation forms? Need a welcome series that works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Flickr bc have established presence there and can cross post for bigger influence. saw increase in understanding the process of responding to a massive disaster, which means fewer negative stories about how we’re not there quick enough or not handing out enough money. set audience.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

You can give all your friends birthday donations, plus a dollar here and there to your other favorite causes using the Facebook app, and you'll be simultaneously helping to raise money for Feeding America. Wiley is donating books to Mashable's #Stories4Good contest , a social media for social good initiative. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. So we aren’t going to worry so much about whether you make money off our people, in fact, the opposite. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

I’ve posted it on Flickr, and am also working on a more substantial blog post about our session on “Politics 2.0&# at yKos. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Communication grid so people can talk to each other eg. You have to have the ability to communicate. wikipedia b.

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