Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. It got 189 diggs. Click to see the larger image.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Word of mouth, etc. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Goal: To understand how to use social networks strategically for communications and fundraising. Chat Leader: Danielle Brigida. Online Networking. Presenter: Brian Reich. Chat Leader: Rachel Weidinger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. I'm not a marketing or fundraising professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Nick Booth from the UK is asking for help in promoting an internet UK-based fundraiser. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. Participants who enter here can win a Playstation 3 from Dixons and have their ??1 Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How about Digg ?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Every time I glance at my inbox, I see another message about trainings like "Raising Money with Twitter" or "Fundraising in Facebook." Whether it's Twitter or Digg or Facebook or LinkedIn, it's about those relationships. The nonprofit sector is catching on to this. I think we're missing the mark, though.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. For instance, LinkedIn isn’t for sharing personal fundraising appeals, but it is a great network to tout corporate sponsorships, talk about employee giving, and share innovative ways your nonprofit is working to make the world better. Look for ways to engage i nfluencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I'd also take a look at widget fundraising. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. And here's a good listener's guide. Donations with Squidoo. And you might want to read this primer first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

For BlogHer, I'm on a panel with Britt Bravo and I have to present the widget fundraising case study in ten minutes. The other remix challenge is take the Social Media and remix for fundraising 2.0. Luckily, my colleague Francesco has remixed the game for fundraising, but it is in Italian! workshops for July.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2009

era has a whole other language – like Digg, Blogger, Facebook and Twitter. But these technologies are shaped by a fundraising cornerstone – personal relationships. The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Do You Speak Geek? Do Your Donors?It It seems like the Web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How about Digg ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. The premise of the article misses the point and ignores a fundamental principle of fundraising ? If you do a good job, then the fundraising will follow. If you want to succeed using Web 2.0, Lose control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Finally, consider how you can mix in fundraising. I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. Tagging is not only a tool for archiving and locating online resources, it can also be used to collaborate with your volunteers and other like-minded organizations and even for fundraising.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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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? Online Fundraising Predictions From Around the World. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Micro Fundraising and Trust. Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. Harry: A Green Geek.

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APRIL 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) RSS feeds are your friends.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

His thoughtful response: “I know a bunch of people have tried (and there has actually been some discussion within the NTEN blogs and community about it) to use LinkedIn as a fundraising platform. But I have seen groups use LinkedIn to form committees that do fundraising, to have people volunteer time from an in-kind standpoint, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

We think that, if folks had some kind of assurance that they wouldn't be the only ones to show up at a playground-build or a rally or a fundraiser or a river clean-up, they would likely be more willing to show up themselves. " Really, the applications are pretty limitless. the possibilities are pretty endless!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? Or, maybe you want to be able to fundraise directly through your social media outlet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Collective action goes one step further and uses online engagement to initiate meaningful action.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

At this month's packed Online Community Meetup (also referred to as #OCTribe), Jen Burton , director of Community and Support at Causes.com , spoke about Facebook's largest fundraising platform and its role in supporting nonprofits. It displays donors, fundraisers, the amount given, top recruiters, and much more.

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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

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0, How age coding can improve your fundraising effectiveness. David Geilhufe's identifies three projects that pop out!

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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. " Marketing and Fundraising Charitable gift catalogs ignites blog buzz notes the Donor Power Blog, providing context and a roundup of blogosphere reaction. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Its definitely worth mentioning in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fun and humor, used in the right way and in the appropriate context, can help boost your social fundraising campaign. Before taking the plunge, he setup a group fundraising page at FirstGiving. While a modest amount raised, Erin surpassed his fundraising goal by 50%. Can this work for larger campaign goals? Gary Vaynerchuk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? And yet, virtually no “major” causes have sent their volunteers over to use it as a fundraising or attention raising or action generating tool. Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter. Is that how we measure social impact now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

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. When you’re running a fundraiser, people want context. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest.

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