Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

He raised $28 million online, of which, “90% [of the contributions] were under $100, with over 250,000 contributors.” In 2007 when the platform launched, Causes grew in popularity and awareness as people used their Birthday Wish to raise money for their favorite nonprofit. She loves interacting with communities online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. Nick Booth from the UK is asking for help in promoting an internet UK-based fundraiser. and the ps3 tag.

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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. When Did We Start Trusting Strangers p. The nonprofit sector is catching on to this.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. The campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

tools and fund raising. It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. This week's TechnoBuzz Newsletter has an excellent piece by Jonah Sachs from FreeRange Studios on online storytelling, making the point that you don't need the latest web2.0 workshops for July.

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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. you need to build to build relationships with people before you try and raise money from them. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Lose control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. How did I raise $2,657 in 90 minutes? Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes). It got 189 diggs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. I'm sitting here in awe that you all have helped me raised $261 from 11 donors (Thurs. The message is really important and it has to focus on why you are passionate about the cause and the results of raising the money.

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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? How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health! Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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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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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. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe.

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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. Philthanthropy.

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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. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 The Give and Take Blog raises a question " Are anonymous blog authors as credible as those who write under their real names ? " prompted some discussion. Michelle Murrain responds as do others. era websites.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

But unlike other top apps, Causes is dedicated to a singular purpose: making it easier for nonprofits to raise money by connecting with their communities. " In the example shown, a nonprofit was able to view the almost $400,000 raised over a period of time. Setting a goal of raising $500,000 is intimidating and hard to visualize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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. My personal favorite is Erin Ennis who took a winter dip in Vermont's Lake Champlain as part of a personal challenge to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont.

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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. My point about VCs wasn’t that non profits should be raising money from them. Is that how we measure social impact now? and social media. Again, sorry that I’m stale.

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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 This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. Carie says HSUS has raised $20k through the Causes app, though I’m not finding that in my search of Causes.

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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. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign.

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APRIL 20, 2009

“This is a make-or-break moment to win the fight for clean energy, and we need to raise more funds to ramp up our campaign over the coming months. Its part of raising kids. There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. Its seems crazy, but its true.

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