Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can make a donation and read the full letter from Ami at the following link: [link]. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. To ensure that resource is available for future job posters and seekers in the nonprofit sector, we must support Idealist.org now. Pass it on to your friends, coworkers, and other organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Only having launched in March 2011, they just broke $25,000 in funds raised in ventures on their site, with donations ranging from $3 to $2,000. StartSomeGood was created after seeing a gap of types of projects and ideas they would want to support - social enterprises and amplifying social and environmental good ideas. Over and over again.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. While this technique has been widely used by for-profits for years, nonprofits are now catching on by finding social media ambassadors who are willing to donate their networks and voices to support their causes. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Instead, we bring over supplies for the Sharing Foundation , mostly in-kind donations of clothing, medicine, or other items that can't be easily acquired or are cheaper in the US. companies. beth kanter brought all of those for cloggers. m wearing ???i writing this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

An article in the Washington Post notes that "fewer than 1% of those who have joined a cause have actually donated money through [the Facebook Causes] application." They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. It doesn't work that way. The First Step Get a champion in the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

For nonprofits, that tracking donations from social media engagement. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . In other words, that you can monetize the process of engagement. The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? If your organization Tweets, will they donate? Social Media Breakfast: Help Leverage A Tyson Foods Donation. Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I've been flabbergasted by the generous donations from colleagues of their money, their advice, and links. Personally, I would like the ability for the donations to be linked to TSF's DonateNow account or checking account. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Is that possible?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Fundraising has traditionally been a lonely and frustrating process -- asking loads of people to donate to a cause or project with no assurance that there will be a return on that investment. the possibilities are pretty endless! What are some inspiring examples about how people have used pledgebank to raise money or make change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice. It's game based on how your vocabulary is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. The upcoming donations API will allow organizations to deliver a completely customized donation experience. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr. and asking for ideas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

With Birthday Wish, you can donate your birthday to a cause of your choice. Instead of receiving a flurry of gifts you don't really want, you can instead divert that into donations through Causes' platform. This makes it much more flexible, allowing readers to donate to a general cause like "Stop Animal Abuse."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s OK, because our popularity on Digg drove in 50+ links from blogs, including a few elite sources like The Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A personal challenge typically issued as statement like "if we make our goal, I'll do or donate xyz" can also energize your campaign. I did this for my recent birthday campaign , using the Facebook Causes matching challenge that if our cause raised $5,200, I'd donate ten times my age or $520. Donate Airline Miles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

While written from a business or commercial perspective, Eric Enge has an article called " 9 Ways to Make Money on Analytics " which includes tips and suggestions for thinking about how the data can help you think through improvements that may lead to more donations or revenue. Web Analytics Course from Site Logic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. How it worked.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us These donations go to fund Oxfam America programs worldwide. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Goal to lead to increased sustained donations rather than episodic giving, increased understanding. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. your word is bond.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

As communicators who are fighting to change the world, we need to write passionately and tell stories that connect to people in order to motivate them to take action and donate some of their hard earned money. Framing It Is Everything MoveOn laid out what they were going to do with my donation. Click here." Tell Congress to fix this!"

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