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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. 6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever – Guest Post by Joe Waters. “But Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. Co-Disruptor: Twitter.

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

Amy Sample Ward

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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7 Virtual Volunteer Ideas

Whole Whale

Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. Here are some ideas to make the most of volunteers online: Data/Image Projects.

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September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

NTEN

flickr: ryancr Not to toot our own horn (although we love to do that around here) but do you know about our RoundTables? Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps.

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Would You Get A Tattoo On Your Arm for A Good Cause?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Photo by Steve Garfield.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Four years ago, web 2.0

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