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Nonprofits Should Consider SMS Fundraising With Eyes Wide Open

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. When will we see a Network for Good for text fundraising campaigns? Maybe I'm jaded. Technology Trigger.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think pulling people off Facebook is going to be a challenge.&# Shawn Ahmed , a free agent fundraiser, concurs, “We don’t know what the space will be for social change activists.&#. Nonprofit organizations that have been early adopters of social media are exploring, like Momsrising, carefully.

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. Are there other challenges we as a sector face in the adoption and successful use of social networking for awareness, communications, and fundraising tools?