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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? of the entire American population use Facebook. We found that participants who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube communicate with their networks more regularly and send more messages.

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose. Hope you will too.

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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts. Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s someone like me???

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Psssst! Your Website Is Trying to Tell You Something

Tech Soup

Web analytics tools gather data that can help nonprofits better engage stakeholders, drive donations, and measure the success of their online presence. But you do need the right tools to gather and understand that information. The Cardinal Path white paper, The State of Digital Data in the Top 50 Nonprofit Organizations in the U.S.

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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. Source: GiveDirectly Facebook Page. NAVi seeks to fill these gaps. You can read more about the methodology here.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. The internet is not new. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Good News for Giving 2.0: Your Organization’s Champions Are Your Most Valuable Resource

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A new white paper “ The Effectiveness of Celebrity Spokespeople in Social Fundraisers ,” written by my former Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston and Henry T. The Chronicle of Philanthropy review of the white paper says it succinctly: “ Celebrity Fundraisers May Be Overrated.”

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