Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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JUNE 4, 2021

Classes/Tutorials/Webinars. Equipped with a reliable video streaming platform (like Zoom), it’s easy for anyone to set up and conduct their own online class, tutorial, or webinar. This is a type of event where donors pay a fee to be a part of a contest where the “last person standing” receives some sort of prize. Bingo Night.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Produce a monthly website and online engagement report of key metrics. Checklists or How-to Tutorial. What are the short-term and long-term goals and objectives? Who are the target audiences? What is your core message for the initiative? Lists Post (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft.

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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. (I'll be participating in one at the end of the month).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

There are almost 15,000 design galleries on ScratchR, ranging from small critique groups to tutorial groups to Christian groups to anything goes groups. The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads.

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