Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. Here's some numbers: 30% repeat donors to a Leng Sopharath campaign. 70% new donors. Here's some numbers: 30% repeat donors to a Leng Sopharath campaign. 70% new donors. It got 189 diggs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Is that LinkedIn connection a donor? They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Don't fall into the silo syndrome trap. Learn from the mistakes of the past. Ask questions about the total relationship with the supporter now. Is that MySpace friend an activist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm sitting here in awe that you all have helped me raised $261 from 11 donors (Thurs. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? So, be sure to thank your donors promptly, etc. Is that possible?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

It was all done in Khmer, so I have no idea what was being said, although I'm sure the generous t-shirt donors were thanked. " Bloggers were shouting, pointing, laughing, and gesturing. They were very excited to get the t-shirts. The room was very hot, despite being air conditioned and I was dehydrated from not enough water and dizzy.

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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. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

   What happens after a nonprofit donor or stakeholder is satisfied with the engagement. Laura Lee Dooley's blog post " The Social Media Metrics Lottery " pointed to and summarized Don Bartholomew's thoughts on engagement as well as other posts on blogging ROI from the corporate sector.  

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Well report back in a few days.

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MARCH 27, 2008

They tried the Causes challenge – seeking donors on Facebook – and her biggest takeaway was that influencers are more valuable than donors. I assume what she means is that if you find the influencers, they will bring you more donors than you could find on your own. The first panelist was Eve Smith from Easter Seals.

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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? Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. 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. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Katya Andresen's post titled " Dying Man Throws Himself From Plane to Raise Money " is attention grabbing way to say, "I would like to see more sessions at fundraising conferences on 'how to ask donors to ask for money." Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. New (to me) Blogs.

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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. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube. Also announced 2.0

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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. Without APIs to unlock the data in their constituent and donor databases, nonprofit organizations had difficulty maximizing the value of their data in their communications and fundraising strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0,

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Donor Blog condenses it into two ways ! 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. You can submit something here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. Prospective donors will find that Causes, through their partner Network for Good, only accepts U.S. It displays donors, fundraisers, the amount given, top recruiters, and much more.

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JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools? Its definitely worth mentioning in this post. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In 2006, Sarah Bunting, who writes the blog Tomato Nation , a culture and humor blog, offered to shave her head if her blog readers donated to DonorsChoose.org , a site that allows donors to purchase school supplies for needy classrooms. He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. Gary Vaynerchuk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

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. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators.

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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. David Neff, American Cancer Society David will be perform a spoken word and video poem about using Twitter to recruit blood donors and the Austin Twestival. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream".

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. ” After you take action, you get sent to a landing page that asks you to share your own experience with having (or not having) Paid Sick Days.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2006

60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? 60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace?

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