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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Again this is about simplicity- anyone can update Twitter, but allowing participants to do it directly from their headquarters is easier on them and will get your message out to their network, YouTube – A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Well how many words is a video worth?

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Things We Like (March 2009)

NTEN

was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats." IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Ethan Zuckerman's " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism ": "Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers.

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Digital Life Hacks: Savvy Social Media

Connection Cafe

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Re-sharing pictures/videos of those who attended your events. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If just two or three of your friends each posted the ChipIn widget with accompanying video, pictures and text to their site, you would now have four people all working to fundraise. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it.

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An Interview of Heather Cronk, PledgeBank: Advice On Raising Money on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And the Bakul Foundation, the creators of the pledge, set up a blog to document their work that has great pictures of the library. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us. What are your secrets to success using PledgeBank?

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Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. To create content that is appealing to a certain group of people, you need to know what they’re talking about, what they feel, what they eat, drink and dream. Companies don’t make friends.

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi! pretty cool.